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| "The more he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons." | |
"It was a dark and stormy night..."
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"Buy old masters. They bring in better prices than young mistresses."
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"The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost."
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| "What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible." |  |
| "The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet." |
"I grew up without knowing anything about prejudice; my mother saw to that. If parents would keep prejudice and intolerance to themselves for one generation, we would have a different world."
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"I'll play it first and tell you what it is later."
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"My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can't."
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"I started all over again on page 1, circling the 262 pages like a vulture looking for live flesh to scavenge."
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"Nobody knows a hit before it's a hit."
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"So that was a very defining point of that relationship."
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"Marriage can be viewed as the waiting room for death."
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"Vibrators. I think they are great. They keep you out of stupid sex. I'd pitch them to anybody."
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| Died 05/24 | Died 05/25 | Died 05/26 | Death Dates |