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There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.

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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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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I speak two languages, Body and English.
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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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The curve is more powerful than the sword.
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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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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
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The finest woman that ever walked the streets.
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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've been in more laps than a napkin.
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Don't come crawlin' to a man for love-he likes to get a run for his money.
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Don't ever make the same mistake twice unless it pays.
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You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
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I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action.
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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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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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It takes two to get one in trouble.
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I meet a man with a thousand dollars and leave him with two that's the meaning of subtraction.
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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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I have always felt a gift diamond shines so much better than one you buy for yourself.
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