"Your responsibility as a parent is never great as the case is with the mother."
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"Do not approach with anything even resembling assurance a restaurant that moves."
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"Women who insist upon having the same options as men would do well to consider the option of being the strong, silent type"
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"When I was young, boys didn't type."
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"One [New York] eatery is a remodeled diner that looks like what Busby Berkeley would have done if only he hadn't had the money."
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"We are all born with a rut radar. Mine is finely wired, a little oversensitive maybe. Perhaps just a bit hyperactive. Twenty steady boyfriends before turning 16, a new best friend 12 times a year, switched college majors every time I met someone who seemed exactly like the sort of person I really, really wanted to be. I'm not fickle. I'm just never there yet."
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"New Yorkers, we've seen Donald Trump for, like, 30 years; we know who he is. So he wasn't a surprise to me."
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"I used to buy all my shirts at Brooks Brothers, but that was completely ruined about 20 years ago. They discontinued the shirt I liked. If I had only known this - I mean, if you're going to discontinue an item that thousands and thousands of people buy, announce it. Say, 'We will no longer be making our excellent Brooks Brothers cotton shirts that we made for 5,000 years. We're going to change them in some awful way. We're alerting you so you can buy a lifetime supply.' Shirts don't go bad, they're not peaches."
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"I am not... totally unreceptive to colour providing it makes its appearance quietly, deferentially, and without undue fanfare."
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"When people say, 'Doesn't Gloria [Vanderbilt] look great? She's 85.' I say, 'Yes, she was a raving beauty when she was 20,' that's the key. Very helpful."
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"I've never seen the Kardashians; I'm not sure who they are. But I know a lot about them because it's impossible not to."
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"Presently it appears that people are mainly concerned with being well rested. Those capable of uninterrupted sleep are much admired. Unconsciousness is in great demand. This is the day of the milligram. The rigors of learning how to do long division have been a traditional part of childhood, just like learning to smoke. In fact, as far as I am concerned, the two go hand in hand. Any child who cannot do long division by himself does not deserve to smoke."
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"There's no such thing as advice to the lovelorn. If they took advice, they wouldn't be lovelorn."
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"Los Angeles is a large city-like area surrounding the Beverly Hills Hotel."
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"If there had been a job of being a reader, I would have taken that, because I love to read and I don't love to write. That would be blissful."
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"To me, O'Hara is the real Fitzgerald."
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"Luckily when you drive a cab there are two things: You don't have a boss in the cab with you, and you are not facing the people that you are making money from."
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"I'm very lazy, I hate to work."
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"New York was always more expensive than any other place in the United States, but you could live in New York - and by New York, I mean Manhattan. Brooklyn was the borough of grandparents. We didn't live well. We lived in these horrible places. But you could live in New York. And you didn't have to think about money every second."
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"I never had a typewriter. I never had any machines."
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