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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.

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The sun's gone dim, and the moon's gone black. For I loved him, and he didn't love back.

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I require three things in a man: he must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.

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Where's the man that could ease a heart like a satin gown?

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That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

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There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.", Summer 1956]

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Don't look at me in that tone of voice.

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By the time you swear you're his,Shivering and sighing.And he vows his passion is,Infinite, undying.Lady make note of this --One of you is lying.

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I shudder at the thought of men....I'm due to fall in love again

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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.

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She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.

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I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true.

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And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word.

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It costs me never a stab nor squirm / To tread by chance upon a worm. / Aha, my little dear, / I say, Your clan will pay me back one day.

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I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.