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In the beginning, we made the usual mistake of looking at houses we could afford. I am working on a proposition, hereafter to be known as Kerr's law, which states in essence: All the houses you can afford to buy are depressing.
Jean Kerr
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Jean Kerr
Age: 82 †
Born: 1922
Born: July 10
Died: 2005
Died: January 5
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Being on a ship is something like being pregnant. You can sit there and do absolutely nothing but stare at the water and have the nicest sense that you are accomplishing something.
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I was always the last woman on the last down elevator as the store was closing.
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A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.
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There is this to be said about having money. You get rejected by a higher class of people.
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