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Mae West
Age: 87 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 17
Died: 1980
Died: November 22
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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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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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A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
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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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[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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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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The score never interested me, only the game.
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Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
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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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It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
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Diamonds talk, and I can stand listenin' to 'em often.
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all pleasures should be taken in great leisure and are worth going into in detail love is not like eating a quick lunch with one's hat on.
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When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.
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It's hard to find a good man, but it's good to find a hard one.
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It's not what you can do, but the way you do it that counts.
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A good man is hard to find -- but you'll mostly find him asleep.
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Women with pasts interest men because they hope history will repeat itself.
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In my long and colorful career, one thing stands out: I have been misunderstood.
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Don't cry for a man who's left you--the next one may fall for your smile.
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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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