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The river of sludge will go on and on. It isn't about me.

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Jackie Kennedy
Age: 64 †
Born: 1929
Born: July 28
Died: 1994
Died: May 19
First Lady
Journalist
Literary Editor
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Town of Southampton
Jacqueline Kennedy
Jackie Onassis
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy
Jacqueline Lee Bouvier
Jacqueline Bouvier
Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
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[On John F. Kennedy:] ... now he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.
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Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?
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If you cut people off from what nourishes them spiritually, something in them dies.
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I think my biggest achievement is that, after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane.
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History -- its what those bitter old men write.
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You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
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I think the major role of the First Lady is to take care of the President so that he can best serve the people. And not to fail her family, her husband, and children.
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Do you think that God would separate me from my husband if I killed myself? I feel as though I am going out of my mind at times. Wouldn’t God understand that I just want to be with him?
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I will tell you one thing. They will never drag me out like a little old widow like they did Mrs. Wilson when President Wilson died. I will never be used that way.
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One of the things I like about publishing is that you don't promote the editor - you promote the book and the author.
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?
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When Harvard men say they have graduated from Radcliffe, then we've made it.
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There will be great presidents again but there will never be another Camelot.
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[On Hillary Rodham Clinton:] She always looks so adorable, and she's intrepid she's the biggest bargain America ever got, bigger than that Louisiana Purchase from my French friends.
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A newspaper reported I spend $30,000 a year buying Paris clothes and that women hate me for it. I couldn't spend that much unless I wore sable underwear.
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An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.
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One should always dress like a marble column.
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Aristotle Onassis rescued me at a moment when my life was engulfed with shadows. He brought me into a world where one could find both happiness and love. We lived through many beautiful experiences together which cannot be forgotten, and for which I will be eternally grateful.
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Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.
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