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1 " I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me. "
― Tallulah Bankhead
2 " I'm as pure as the driven slush. "
3 " Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once. "
4 " If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner. "
5 " I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education. "
6 " The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner "
7 " There have only been two geniuses in the world — Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare. "
8 " I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right. "
9 " Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it. "
10 " My heart is pure as the driven slush. "
11 " My father warned me about men and booze but he never said anything about women and cocaine. "
12 " It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time. "
13 " Say anything about me, darling, as long as it isn't boring. "
14 " I have three phobias which, could I mute them,would make my life as slick as a sonnet,but dull as ditch water:I hate to go to bed,I hate to get up and I hate to be alone... "
15 " Fill what is empty, empty what is full, and scratch where it itches. "
16 " They say it's the good girls who keep diaries. The bad girls never have the time. Me, I just wanna live a life I'm gonna remember even if I don't write it down. "
17 " Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know, I've been using it for years "
18 " I've had a man and I've had a woman, and there's got to be something better. "
19 " There’s less here than meets the eye. "
20 " Codeine . . . bourbon. "
