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Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.

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Clare Boothe Luce
Age: 84 †
Born: 1903
Born: April 10
Died: 1987
Died: October 9
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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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There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.
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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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H. L. Mencken told me once that he answered all his mail, pleasant and unpleasant, with just one line, 'You may be right.' That's the way I feel now. It is in the realm of possibility, just barely, that I could be the one who's wrong.
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If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.
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I am for lifting everyone off the social bottom. In fact, I am for doing away with the social bottom altogether.
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