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Clare Boothe Luce
Age: 84 †
Born: 1903
Born: April 10
Died: 1987
Died: October 9
Actor
Diplomat
Dramatist
Journalist
Playwright
Politician
Screenwriter
Socialite
Writer
New York City
New York
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Autobiography
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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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In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed.
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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 you ever manage to make a fool of me, I'll deserve what I get.
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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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Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.
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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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There are no hopeless situations there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
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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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No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.
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[In politics] no good deed goes unpunished
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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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If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.
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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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You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.
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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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The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
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A great man is one sentence.
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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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I wish I were a virgin again. The only fun I ever had was holding out.
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