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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.
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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Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
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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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the only time travelers are really gay is when they are traveling for no good reason at all.
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Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.
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Guns know no policy except destruction.
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[On Vice-President Henry A. Wallace:] Much of what Mr. Wallace calls his global thinking is, no matter how you slice it, still globaloney.
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Autobiography is mostly alibiography.
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Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.
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If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.
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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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Women can't have an honest exchange in front of men without having it called a cat fight.
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all history shows that the hand that cradles the rock has ruled the world, not the hand that rocks the cradle!
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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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Bombs know no ism but barbarism. The laws that successfully govern a peaceful and democratic society do not interfere with the only law bombs know, which is the law of gravity.
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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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There are no hopeless situations there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
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