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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.

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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I’ve been things and I've seen places.
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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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Some of the wildest men make the best pets.
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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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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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Too many girls follow the line of least resistance, but a good line is hard to resist.
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All the raves were just words. You don't want to let words confuse you. Words come cheap.
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Men are my life, diamonds are my career.
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Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.
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Men would wither and custom stale them, but diamonds! Ah, they were crystallized immortality!
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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
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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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Let men see what's coming to them, and women will get what's coming to them.
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The best way to behave is to misbehave.
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I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
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Just a little sheep dip. Panacea for all stomach ailments.
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It's not what you can do, but the way you do it that counts.
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A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.
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I've been in more laps than a napkin.
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Women like a man with a past, but they prefer a man with a present
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