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Men are all alike - except the one you've met who's different.

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
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 believe in the single standard -- for men and women.
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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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I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.
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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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I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
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You may admire a girl's curves on the first introduction, but the second meeting shows up new angles.
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How tall are you big boy? Six foot nine inches! Let's go up to my place and talk about the nine inches!
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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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I have never loved a man as much as I have loved myself
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Never ask a man where he has been.
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I've been in 'Who's Who' and I know what's what, but it'll be the first time I ever made the dictionary.
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Let men see what's coming to them, and women will get what's coming to them.
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If you put your foot in it, be sure it's your best foot.
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I wrote the story myself. It's all about a girl who lost her reputation but never missed it.
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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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March isn't the only thing that's in like a lion and out like a lamb.
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