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I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.

Mae West

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Mae West
Age: 87 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 17
Died: 1980
Died: November 22
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Mary Jane West
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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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I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action.
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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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[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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A man has more character in his face at forty than at twenty - he has suffered longer.
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Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.
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There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.
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I have found men who didn't know how to kiss. I've always found time to teach them.
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Why don't you come up sometime 'n see me? I'm home every evening. . . . Come up. I'll tell your fortune. . . . Ah, you can be had.
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