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Woman: You certainly know the way to a man's heart. Mae West: Funny, too, 'cause I don't know how to cook.

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Mae West
Age: 87 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 17
Died: 1980
Died: November 22
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All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.
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I like a man what takes his time.
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You gotta get up early in the morning to catch a fox and stay up late at night to get a mink.
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The curve is more powerful than the sword.
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I go for two kinds of men. The kind with muscles, and the kind without.
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Sex with love is the greatest thing in life. But sex without love--that's not so bad either.
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Flattery will get you everywhere.
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One more drink and I'll be under the host.
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I have never been able to sleep with anyone. I require a full-size bed so that I can lie in the middle of it and extend my arms spreadeagle on both sides without being obstructed.
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Marriage? I ain't got time for a husband or child. All my life I've looked after myself as if I was my own child.
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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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A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.
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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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It takes two to get one in trouble.
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It's not what you say, but how you say it!
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
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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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It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.
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