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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
Comedian
Film Actor
Playwright
Screenwriter
Singer
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Brooklyn
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Mary Jane West
Jane West
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Love

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Dating means two things disillusionment or a racing heart.
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Hiring someone to write your autobiography is like hiring someone to take a bath for you
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It's not what you say, but how you say it!
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I always did like a man in uniform. And that one fits you grand. Why don't you come up sometime and see me?
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I'm a good woman for a bad man.
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When you think about it, what other playwrights are there besides O'Neill, Tennessee and me?
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I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.
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I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
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An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
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Everyone has the right to run his own life- even if you're heading for a crash. What I'm against is blind flying.
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Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.
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Women like a man with a past, but they prefer a man with a present
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When you get the personality, you don't need the nudity.
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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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[On the metaphysical:] ... I knew in some marvelous way I had touched the hem of the unknown. And being me, I wanted to lift that hemline a little bit more.
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Don't forget honey. Never let one man worry your mind. Find 'em, fool 'em and forget 'em.
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All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.
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It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
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She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.
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Imagine censors that wouldn't let you sit in a man's lap. I've been in more laps than a napkin!
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