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"I'd like to have money. And I'd like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that's too adorable, I'd rather have money."
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"But I don't give up; I forget why not."
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"I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it."
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"I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid."
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"By the time you swear you're his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this -- One of you is lying."
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"It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes."
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"On lady novelists: As artists they're rot, but as providers they're oil wells; they gush. Norris said she never wrote a story unless it was fun to do. I understand Ferber whistles at her typewriter."
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"Newton's Fourth Law: Every action has an equal and opposite satisfaction."
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"[Hospitalized and pressing the nurse's button before dictating letters to her secretary:] This should assure us of at least forty-five minutes of undisturbed privacy."
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"The definition of eternity is two people and a ham."
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"Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt."
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"The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe!"
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"Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, a medley of extemporanea, And love is a thing that can never go wrong, and I am Marie of Romania."
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"When you have to apologize, it is well, I suppose, to get the thing over quickly ..."
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"Once, when I was young and true. Someone left me sad - Broke my brittle heart in two; And that is very bad. Love is for unlucky folk, Love is but a curse. Once there was a heart I broke; And that, I think, is worse."
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"Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!"
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"Prince or commoner, tenor or bass, Painter or plumber or never-do-well, Do me a favor and shut your face - Poets alone should kiss and tell."
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"Three highballs, and I think I'm St. Francis of Assisi."
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"Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)"
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"All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted."
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"Why, after all, should readers never be harrowed? Surely there is enough happiness in life without having to go to books for it."
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"Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it."
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"A list of authors who have made themselves most beloved and therefore, most comfortable financially, shows that it is our national joy to mistake for the first-rate, the fecund rate."
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"Hollywood is the one place on earth where you could die of encouragement."
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"Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away."

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"Where's the man that could ease a heart like a satin gown?"
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"It may be that this "It may be that this autobiography [Aimee Semple McPherson's] is set down in sincerity, frankness, and simple effort. It may be, too, that the Statue of Liberty is situated in Lake Ontario."autobiography [Aimee Semple McPherson's] is set down in sincerity, frankness, and simple effort. It may be, too, that the Statue of Liberty is situated in Lake Ontario."
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""Her "mind lives tidily, apart from cold and noise and pain. And bolts the door against her heart, out wailing in the rain."
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"[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that's much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends."
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"If I didn't care for fun and such, I'd probably amount to much, but I shall stay the way I am, because I do not give a damn."
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"Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them."
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"And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned."
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"The writer's way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?"
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"Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship."
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"His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets."
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"Excuse me, everybody, I have to go to the bathroom. I really have to telephone, but I'm too embarrassed to say so."
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"I might repeat to myself . . . a list of quotations from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things."
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"If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised."
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"Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart."
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"[After she and Clare Boothe Luce met in a doorway and the latter said, 'Age before beauty':] Pearls before swine."
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"Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common."
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"People ought to be one of two things, young or dead."
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"I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending."
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"Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses."
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"They tire of quiet, that have known the storm"
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"Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year."
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"Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair."
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"The affair between Margot Asquinth and Margot Asquinth will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature."
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