Ruth Gordon Quotes

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• A lot of people enjoy being dead. But they are not dead, really. They're just backing away from life.
• In our family we don't divorce our men - we bury them.
• The good that men do lives after them.
• My body is on the earth, but my head is in the stars.
• The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.
• Aim above morality. If you apply that to life, then youre bound to live life fully.
• So easy to fall into a rut, isn't it? Why should ruts be so comfortable and so unpopular?
• Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown. At our age one must be watchful of these conversational gray hairs.
• If you believe, then you hang on. If you believe, it means you've got imagination, you don't need stuff thrown out on a blueprint, and…
• You have to have a talent for having talent.
• The kiss. There are all sorts of kisses, lad, from the sticky confection to the kiss of death. Of them all, the kiss of an…
• I feel that much of the world's sorrow comes from people who are this, yet allow themselves to be treated as that.
• Pan me, don't give me the part, publish everybody's book but this one and I will still make it!
• To be somebody, you must last.
• To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. A little money helps, but what really gets it right…
• Vice, virtue - it's best not to be too moral. You'll cheat yourself out of too much life.
• Try something new each day. After all, we're given life to find it out. It doesn't last forever.
• Your first big trouble can be a bonanza if you live through it. Get through the first trouble, and you'll probably make it through the…
• I never got a job I didn't create for myself.
• Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts.

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