Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

—Walter Winchell

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About Walter Winchell

Portrait of Walter Winchell

Walter Winchell (April 7, 1897 – February 20, 1972) was an American syndicated newspaper gossip columnist and radio news commentator. Originally a vaudeville performer, Winchell began his newspaper career as a Broadway reporter, critic and columnist for New York tabloids. He rose to national celebrity in the 1930s with Hearst...

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Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.

—Walter Winchell

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After twelve years of therapy my psychiatrist said something that brought tears to my eyes: "No hablo inglés.

—Ronnie Shakes

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All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

—Edward Gibbon

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Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

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To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior "righteous indignation"—this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.

—Aldous Huxley

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A broken leg can be remembered and located: "It hurt right below my knee, it throbbed, I felt sick at my stomach." But mental pain is remembered the way dreams are remembered—in fragments, unbidden realizations, like looking into a well and seeing the dim reflection of your face in that instant before the water shatters.

—Tracy Thompson

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