"Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)"
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"When I was young and bold and strong, The right was right, the wrong was wrong. With plume on high and flag unfurled, I rode away to right the world. But now I’m old - and good and bad, Are woven in a crazy plaid. I sit and say the world is so, And wise is s/he who lets it go."
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"I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them."
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"If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised."
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"And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned."
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"What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone."
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"[On hearing that Clare Boothe Luce was invariably kind to her inferiors:] And where does she find them?"
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"Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship."
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"My land is bare of chattering folk; / the clouds are low along the ridges, / and sweet's the air with curly smoke / from all my burning bridges."
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"[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?"
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"Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker."
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"Women and elephants never forget."
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"Scratch a lover, and find a foe."
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"Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night."
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"It was written without fear and without research."
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"I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending."
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"Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year."
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"Pictures pass me in long review,-- Marching columns of dead events. I was tender, and, often, true; Ever a prey to coincidence. Always knew I the consequence; Always saw what the end would be. We're as Nature has made us -- hence I loved them until they loved me."
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"I misremember who first was cruel enough to nurture the cocktail party into life. But perhaps it would be not too much to say, in fact it would be not enough to say, that it was not worth the trouble."
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"The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe!"
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