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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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"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."

"Don't look for meaning in life. It was meant to be lived not understood."

"I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved."

"When all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?'I decided I'm going to live---or at least try to live---the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure."

"It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly."

"Living in the fishbowl is hard enough without worrying about a Secret Service that can't keep mum."
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"Somewhere, over the rainbow, Way up tall, There's a land where they've never heard of cholesterol."

"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."

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

"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."

"The difference between reality and unreality is that reality has so little to recommend it."

"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."

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