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"I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts."
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"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."
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"The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy."
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"Better is the enemy of good."
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"For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards."
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"You don't want to dwell on your enemies, you know. I basically feel so superior to my critics for the simple reason that they haven't done what I do. Most book reviewers haven't written 11 novels. Many of them haven't written one."
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"Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us."
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"If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons."
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"In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior."
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"'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems."
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"Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good."
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"When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don't just mean sex, I married him."
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"I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode."
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"I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away."
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"I would tell anyone who wants something from someone else to feign not wanting it. People are perverse. If you show great affection to them, they'll run the other way."
People

"One of my favorite people is Gypsy Rose Lee. She bears out the Biblical promise that he who has, gets. And I hope she gets a lot more."
People

"Dirt makes a man look masculine. Let your hair blow in the wind, and all that. It's OK. All you have to do is look neat when you have to look neat."
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"Jack Kennedy always said to me, Hedy, get involved. That's the secret of life. Try everything. Join everything. Meet everybody."
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"I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories."
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"The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true."
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"Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical."
Compromise
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