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You write a hit the same way you write a flop.
Alan Jay Lerner
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Alan Jay Lerner
Age: 67 †
Born: 1918
Born: August 31
Died: 1986
Died: June 14
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You see what happens today. Women act like men and want to be treated like women.
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Why can't a woman be more like a man? Men are so honest, so thoroughly square Eternally noble, historically fair Who, when you win, will always give your back a pat. Why can't a woman be like that?
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Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment, that was known as Camelot.
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Lots of cosy sky That God and I can share. I need air. I need air.
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Youth has many glories, but judgement is not one of them, and no amount of electronic amplification can turn a belch into an aria.
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Mud can make you prisoner and the plains can make you dry. Snow can burn your eyes but only people make you cry.
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Thank heaven for little girls! For little girls get bigger every day.
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All to often, however, what she [the woman] does want is the man she hopes she will make out of the man she already has.
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I'm getting married in the morning! / Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime. / Pull out the stopper! Let's have a whopper! / But get me to the church on time!.
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The winter is forbidden till December, And exits March the second on the dot. By order summer lingers through September In Camelot.
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Back home everyone said I didn't have any talent. They might be saying the same thing over here, but it sounds better in French.
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