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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.

Mae West

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Mae West
Age: 87 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 17
Died: 1980
Died: November 22
Actor
Actress
Autobiographer
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Mary Jane West
Jane West
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Brains are an asset, if you hide them.
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The best way to behave is to misbehave.
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I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.
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I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
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Men would wither and custom stale them, but diamonds! Ah, they were crystallized immortality!
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I saw what a mess a lot of people could make of their lives when they're smitten. Some of them go temporarily insane. They find a person who they think holds the key to their happiness-the only key to their happiness... My work has always been my greatest happiness
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A real farmer. He spent his childhood in the wheat, and his marriage in the hay.
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Live close, visit often.
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Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
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She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.
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My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned, what's left to create the illusion? Let em wonder. I never believed in giving them too much of me.
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I'm no angel, but I've spread my wings a bit.
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all pleasures should be taken in great leisure and are worth going into in detail love is not like eating a quick lunch with one's hat on.
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I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
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Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
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Women like a man with a past, but they prefer a man with a present
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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.
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Is that a pistol in your pocket or are you just glad to see me? (She made this remark in February 1936, at the railway station in Los Angeles upon her return from Chicago, when a Los Angeles police officer was assigned to escort her home)
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Women want certain things in marriage--the right to a title and a front seat in the lap of luxury.
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It's not what you say, but how you say it!
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