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Women do generally manage to love the guys they marry more than they manage to marry the guys they love.
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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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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Women can't have an honest exchange in front of men without having it called a cat fight.
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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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Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.
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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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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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They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
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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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Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.
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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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Thoughts have no sex.
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Guns know no policy except destruction.
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Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes' They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'
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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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the only time travelers are really gay is when they are traveling for no good reason at all.
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