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"I had moved out of the Edison Hotel because I couldn't pay the bill and was living at the Lincoln Hotel, where I couldn't pay the bill either, but it was cheaper."
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"Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes."

"Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?"

"It was the closest to purgatory that I've ever experienced while I've been living."

"A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it."
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"In Hollywood if you are not working, you are a leper. True, you are probably living in the most expensive leper colony in the world."

"I have always lived beyond my means. I am still trying to live beyond my means, but it is getting harder all the time. I am very rich."

"Success is like winning the sweepstakes or getting killed in an automobile crash. It always happens to somebody else."

"Somewhere, over the rainbow, Way up tall, There's a land where they've never heard of cholesterol."

"You want to fall in love with a shoe, go ahead. A shoe can't love you back, but, on the other hand, a shoe can't hurt you too deeply either. And there are so many nice-looking shoes."

"When the great history of trouble is written, my family will stand extremely high in the table of contents."

"Grandma cheated whenever she could. She cheated because it was a much more scientific and surer way of winning than trusting to luck."

"Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage."

"Even if Scrabble had been invented then, I wouldn't have wanted to play Scrabble, because the highest triple word score in the world would not have expressed how much I liked the game Natalie and I played every afternoon."
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