"H is for Hardware store: I'd rather go to the hardware store than the opera. And I like the opera."
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"When you prostitute yourself, you have to get paid for it."
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"I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself."
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"A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman."
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"I am at heart a gentleman."
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"Do let him read the papers. But not while you accusingly tiptoe around the room, or perch much like a silent bird of prey on the edge of your most uncomfortable chair. (He will read them anyway, and he should read them, so let him choose his own good time.) Don't make a big exit. Just go. But kiss him quickly, before you go, otherwise he might think you are angry; he is used to suspecting he is doing something wrong."
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"Most people who make movies are in real life a bitter disappointment. I, on the other hand, am so much better in real life."
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"Don't follow it blindly into every dark alley. Always remember that you are not a model or a mannequin for which the fashion is created."
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"Chanel was a workaholic. She must have had a lot to forget."
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"Glamour is what I sell, it's my stock in trade."
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"How do you know love is gone? If you said that you would be there at seven and you get there by nine, and he or she has not called the police yet - it's gone."
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"Grumbling is the death of love"
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"What a man notices first about a woman is whether she notices him."
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"For women, beauty is more important than the mind, because the man is easier to watch than to think."
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"Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves."
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"In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it's a fact."
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"There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich."
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"Love affairs are the real only education in life."
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"Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting."
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"The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs."
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