New Year's Resolution: To Tolerate Fools More

This Was An Actress Who, For Twenty Years, Had The World At Her Feet. She Kicked It Away, And The Ball Rolled Out Of Her Reach.

In Her Early Days She Had That Beatific Expression Characteristic Of Victorian Prettiness - Like A Sheep Painted By Raphael.

I Don't Know Very Much But What I Do Know I Know Better Than Anybody, And I Don't Want To Argue About It…my Mind Is Not A Bed To Be Made And Re-made.

Don't Pity Me Now, Don't Pity Me Never; I'm Going To Do Nothing For Ever And Ever.

All I Want Is A Modest Place In Mr X's Good Reading, Miss Y's Good Writing, And That New Edition Of One Thousand Best Bits Of Recent Prose.