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Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
Clare Boothe Luce
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Clare Boothe Luce
Age: 84 †
Born: 1903
Born: April 10
Died: 1987
Died: October 9
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New York City
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Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
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Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.
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If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.
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I don't think my position unusual for a woman. I'm following a perfectly natural urge to do what I like.
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Women can't have an honest exchange in front of men without having it called a cat fight.
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I have never met a man [in the military], in or out of uniform, who ever said, Let's use the missiles. They are even more terrified that the Bishops, because a great many of them don't expect to go to Heaven, which at least the Bishops do.
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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.
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You know, that's the only good thing about divorce you get to sleep with your mother.
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Rome is the city above all cities which loses most of its meaning to those who do not bring to it some historical sense, a decent knowledge of art, and a good amount of time. Rome therefore is particularly disturbing to an American.
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Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. . . . It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forebearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that-being what it is-it falls so short of in fact and in deed.
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the only time travelers are really gay is when they are traveling for no good reason at all.
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The women who inspired this play deserved to be smacked across the head with a meat ax and that, I flatter myself, is exactly what I smacked them with.
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Women do generally manage to love the guys they marry more than they manage to marry the guys they love.
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I was wondering today what the religion of the country is - and all I could come up with is sex.
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Remember, whenever a Republican leaves one side of the aisle and goes to the other, it raises the intelligence quotient of both parties.
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They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
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In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed.
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A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside inside is more often his nursery.
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Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes' They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'
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Time comes when every man's got to feel something new--when he's got to feel young again, just because he's growing old. Women are just the same. But when we get that way we change our hairdress. Or get a new cook.
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