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  • #114
    George Bernard Shaw
    “I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend ... if you have one."
    — George Bernard Shaw, playwright (to Winston Churchill)

    "Cannot possibly attend first night; will attend second, if there is one."
    — Churchill's response”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
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  • #115
    Winston S. Churchill
    “You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
    ― Winston Churchill
    tags: attributed-no-source, convictions, criticism
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  • #116
    Mae West
    “Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.”
    ― Mae West
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  • #117
    Mae West
    “I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: inspirational, religious
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  • #118
    “I made myself platinum, but I was born a dirty blonde.”
    ― Claudia Shear, Dirty Blonde
    tags: confession, innuendo
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  • #119
    Mae West
    “I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor
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  • #120
    Marilyn Monroe
    “It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: dirty, funny, logo, sex
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  • #121
    Woody Allen
    “Is sex dirty? Only when it's being done right.”
    ― Woody Allen
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  • #122
    “This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.”
    ― Sid Ziff
    tags: bad-reviews, book, humorist, misattributed-dorothy-parker, wit
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  • #123
    Dorothy Parker
    “If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
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  • #124
    Brian Andreas
    “She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful & life was so short.”
    ― Brian Andreas
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  • #125
    Brian Andreas
    “Anyone can slay a dragon ...but try waking up every morning and loving the world all over again. That's what takes a real hero.”
    ― Brian Andreas
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  • #126
    Brian Andreas
    “I was waiting for the longest time, she said. I thought you forgot.

    It is hard to forget, I said, when there is such an empty space when you are gone.”
    ― Brian Andreas, Story People
    tags: death, empty, heaven
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  • #128
    Brian Andreas
    “Wanting him to come back before anyone notices part of the world has not moved since he left.”
    ― Brian Andreas
    tags: life, longing, love, relationships, story-people
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  • #129
    Oscar Wilde
    “A good friend will always stab you in the front.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: friends-betrayal
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  • #130
    Oscar Wilde
    “Hearts are made to be broken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
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  • #130
    Oscar Wilde
    “You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: sin
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  • #131
    Oscar Wilde
    “All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
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  • #132
    Oscar Wilde
    “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: truth
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  • #136
    Oscar Wilde
    “Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: education-knowledge
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  • #136
    Lauren Myracle
    “You should eat a waffle! You can't be sad if you eat a waffle!”
    ― Lauren Myracle, ttfn
    tags: funny, humor, waffles
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  • #137
    Oscar Wilde
    “One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: age, discretion, secret, trust, truth, woman
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  • #138
    Mae West
    “I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor
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  • #139
    George Bernard Shaw
    “If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: kill, laughter, misattributed-oscar-wilde, truth
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  • #139
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: attributed-no-source, conflict, fighting, peace, revenge, trial, violence
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  • #140
    Mae West
    “When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better. ”
    ― Mae West
    tags: goodness, sexuality, virtue
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  • #141
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: abilities, capability, confidence, optimism, possibility, skills, strength
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  • #141
    Oscar Wilde
    “Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: fashion
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  • #142
    Mae West
    “Don't cry for a man who's left you--the next one may fall for your smile.”
    ― Mae West
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  • #143
    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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