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Success is like winning the sweepstakes or getting killed in an automobile crash. It always happens to somebody else.

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Allan Sherman
Age: 48 †
Born: 1924
Born: November 30
Died: 1973
Died: November 20
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A committee is a group of individuals who all put in a perfectly good color, and it comes out gray.
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Do not make a stingy sandwich pile the cold cuts high so you should see salami coming through the rye.
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Anyone who calls it sexual intercourse can't possibly be interested in actually doing it. You might as well announce you're ready for lunch by proclaiming, I'd like to do some masticating and enzyme secreting.
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There's Beatles books and T-shirts and rings, and one thing and another. To buy my daughter all these things, I had to sell her brother.
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You want to fall in love with a shoe, go ahead. A shoe can't love you back, but, on the other hand, a shoe can't hurt you too deeply either. And there are so many nice-looking shoes.
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Grandma cheated whenever she could. She cheated because it was a much more scientific and surer way of winning than trusting to luck.
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The whole city gives you the impression of impermanence. You have the feeling that one day someone is going to yell, Cut! Strike it! and then the stagehands will scurry out and remove the mountains, the movie-star homes, the Hollywood Bowl--everything.
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I had moved out of the Edison Hotel because I couldn't pay the bill and was living at the Lincoln Hotel, where I couldn't pay the bill either, but it was cheaper.
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Teacher, teacher, I declare, I see your purple underwear.
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