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"You're just a huge romantic at heart, aren't you?""If there's cash involved, I'm anything you want me to be."
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"Over a lifetime of dealing with difficult women, I have learned it is often better to give into their demands immediately."
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"Anything was better than nothing. Half-full was better than empty. Ignorance was the lowest form of humiliation and suffering."
"The really essential factors of success in any undertaking are money and opportunity, and as a rule, the man who can make the first can make the second."
"Fair play is all well and good. But knowing how to kick 'em in the balls can get you out of a jam 9 times out of 10."
"Her philosophy was, if it had a pulse, it could be killed. I didn't really have a philosophy, but I could see how talking with the school director would be difficult for her. If he said something she didn't like, chopping him to tiny pieces wouldn't exactly help me get into the school."
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"Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them."
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