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If you ever manage to make a fool of me, I'll deserve what I get.

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Clare Boothe Luce
Age: 84 †
Born: 1903
Born: April 10
Died: 1987
Died: October 9
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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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[On the Democratic Party:] Its leaders are always troubadors of trouble crooners of catastrophe ... A Democratic President is doomed to proceed to his goals like a squid, squirting darkness all about him.
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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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Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
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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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To put a woman on the ticket would challenge the loyalty of women everywhere to their sex, because it would be made to seem that the defeat of the ticket meant the defeat for a hundred years of women's chance to be truly equal with men in politics.
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Guns know no policy except destruction.
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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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I wish I were a virgin again. The only fun I ever had was holding out.
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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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Autobiography is mostly alibiography.
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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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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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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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