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When I was a kid and we used to play Post Office, I was the Dead Letter Office.

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Phyllis Diller
Age: 95 †
Born: 1917
Born: July 17
Died: 2012
Died: August 20
Actor
Comedian
Comedienne
Film Actor
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Lima
Ohio
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It's an ill will that blows when you leave the hairdresser.
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I realize it is normal to argue. I almost missed World War II watching my parents fight.
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If I wore a peek-a-boo dress, it would be like turning in a false alarm.
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Right from the start my parents had left me to fend for myself. Apparently unaware that I was a kid, they invariably treated me like an adult, perhaps because they themselves were no spring chickens.
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Sex is identical to comedy in that it involves timing.
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My sister-in-law is so skinny that she has a striped dress with only one stripe.
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It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core.
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We named all our children Kid. Well, they have different first names, like Hey Kid, You Kid, Dumb Kid . . .
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It's true Fang and I fight, but we've never gone to bed mad. Of course, one year we were up for three months.
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get married with the feeling it is going to last. Not like the bride I know who doubled the wedding cake recipe and froze one.
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Like all good ruins, I look better by moonlight.
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