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Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.
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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Thoughts have no sex.
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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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Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
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If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.
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Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.
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Rich women are not too put upon by their children. You don't have to do all the things for a child that those women who had to stay at home did. My Ann had a French governess who took care of her until she was twelve years old and went off to boarding school.
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There are no hopeless situations there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
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If men had to bear babies, there'd never be more than one child in a family.
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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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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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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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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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Guns know no policy except destruction.
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