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If men had to bear babies, there'd never be more than one child in a family.
Clare Boothe Luce
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Clare Boothe Luce
Age: 84 †
Born: 1903
Born: April 10
Died: 1987
Died: October 9
Actor
Diplomat
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New York City
New York
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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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The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
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Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.
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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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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 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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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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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
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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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[In politics] no good deed goes unpunished
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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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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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Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.
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