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"A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table."
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"I'm old, but I'm still cute and strong. And very butch."

"What's going to be hard for me is to try to divorce myself as much as possible from what I wrote. I'll have to approach it simply as raw material and try to craft a film script out of it."

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"There's never a right or wrong side in a divorce case, but, given the human capacity for hate, the breakup of a legal relationship so tied to emotion often brought out the worst in people."

"Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash."

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"To get over my divorce, I got a prescription to live at the Playboy Mansion for a while."
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"A man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks."

"If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation."

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