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Mae West
Age: 87 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 17
Died: 1980
Died: November 22
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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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Don't ever make the same mistake twice unless it pays.
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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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Tira begins to sing I'm No Angel to him as the screen fades: Baby, I can warm you with this love of mine. I'm No Angel. Aw, let me feel my fingers running through your hair, I can give you kisses. . . .
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Dates in Calendar are Closer Than They Appear! Time is what keeps everything from happening at once. Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.
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When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.
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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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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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Sex with love is the greatest thing in life. But sex without love--that's not so bad either.
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One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
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To err is human, but it feels divine.
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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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Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
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Live close, visit often.
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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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It takes two to get one in trouble.
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Girls, give all your gentlemen friends an even break, even if you have to break them in the attempt.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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No one can have everything, so you have to try for what you want most.
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Is that a pistol in your pocket or are you just glad to see me? (She made this remark in February 1936, at the railway station in Los Angeles upon her return from Chicago, when a Los Angeles police officer was assigned to escort her home)
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