"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."
"Too many Broadway actors in motion pictures lost their grip on success--had a feeling that none of it had ever happened on that sun-drenched coast, that the coast itself did not exist, there was no California. It had dropped away like a hasty dream and nothing could ever have been like the things they thought they remembered."
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Source: Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”
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