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The suicide does not play the game, does not observe the rules. He leaves the party too soon, and leaves the other…
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The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last or it…
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I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up. She's so…
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The body can't distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides.
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Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter she noticed…
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Blood transforms the warm bath water and, in it, I see weakly that this was a mistake. The razor's cut is not…
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The brain is a muscle of busy hills, the struggle of unthought things with things eternally thought.
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The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.
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Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be.
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Of the widow's countless death-duties there is really just one that matters: on the first anniversary of her husband's death the widow…
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Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.
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We are the species that clamors to be lied to.
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I would have loved to have met Marilyn Monroe and have dinner with her.
— Juliette Binoche
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Nicole Kidman in particular seems to bring out the butt-kisser in the sassiest of hackettes, as they ceaselessly strive to portray her…
— Julie Burchill
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I always loved the style of Jean Seberg, Jane Birkin and Marilyn Monroe.
— Helena Christensen
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You are very fortunate to be assigned to duty at Fortress Monroe on Chesapeake Bay; it is just the season for soft…
— Winfield Scott
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You can't pretend to be a Sharon Stone or a Marilyn Monroe. You really can't fake that.
— Claire Bloom
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Bill Monroe spoke of bringing 'ancient tones' into his music with echoes of British and Irish fiddle and bagpipe music, while also…
— Paul Zollo
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That's my idol, Elvis Presley. If you went to my house, you'd see pictures all over of Elvis. He's just the greatest…
— Eddie Murphy
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I've always been drawn to Marilyn Monroe, but certain aspects of her story may be too sad to tell
— Sherilyn Fenn
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Who does she think she is, Marilyn Monroe?
— Marilyn Monroe
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I used to say to myself, 'What the devil have you got to be proud about, Marilyn Monroe?' And I'd answer, 'Everything,…
— Marilyn Monroe
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I’ve always thought Marilyn Monroe looked fabulous, but I’d kill myself if I was that fat…I went to see her clothes in…
— Elizabeth Hurley
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I used to sit near Marilyn Monroe in the Actor's Studio. She'd get dressed up because that was her identity. Sad. Those…
— Doris Roberts
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