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I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.

Mae West

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Mae West
Age: 87 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 17
Died: 1980
Died: November 22
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The censors wouldn't even let me sit on a guy's lap, and I've been on more laps than a table-napkin.
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More people saw me than saw Napoleon, Lincoln and Cleopatra. I was better known than Einstein and Picasso. ... I changed the fashion of two continents. The style of the Gay Nineties became the rage ... women were trying to walk and talk like me. Women became more sex-conscious - sex was out in the open and fun.
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I have always felt a gift diamond shines so much better than one you buy for yourself.
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Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.
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One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
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Dates in Calendar are Closer Than They Appear! Time is what keeps everything from happening at once. Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.
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She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.
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Sometimes it seems to me I've known so many men that the FBI ought to come to me first to compare fingerprints.
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Men are my life, diamonds are my career.
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I speak two languages, Body and English.
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I'm no angel, but I've spread my wings a bit.
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I don't like myself, I'm crazy about myself.
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what's life good fer anyhow? The minute you crawl into the world for no good reason of yer own, it's got you licked four ways from the ace.
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His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.
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Good women are no fun... The only good woman I can recall in history was Betsy Ross. And all she ever made was a flag.
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All the raves were just words. You don't want to let words confuse you. Words come cheap.
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The best way to behave is to misbehave.
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Some women pick men to marry--and others pick them to pieces.
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