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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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If you ever manage to make a fool of me, I'll deserve what I get.
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Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.
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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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A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside inside is more often his nursery.
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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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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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If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.
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The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
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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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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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Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.
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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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If men had to bear babies, there'd never be more than one child in a family.
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Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.
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What generally passes for 'thought' among the majority of mankind is the time one takes out to rearrange one's prejudices.
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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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There are no hopeless situations there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
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Guns know no policy except destruction.
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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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No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.
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