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Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.
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A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.
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Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.
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Animals are considered as property only. To destroy or to abuse them, from malice to the proprietor, or with an intention injurious to his interest in them, is criminal. But the animals themselves are without protection. The law regards them not substantively. They have no RIGHTS!
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For a decade, feminists have drilled their disciples to say, Rape is a crime of violence but not of sex. This sugar-coated Shirley Temple nonsense has exposed young women to disaster. Misled by feminism, they do not expect rape from the nice boys from good homes who sit next to them in class.
Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992) -
I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.
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I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.
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I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.
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It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.
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It is useless to hold a person to anything he says while he is in love, drunk, or running for office.
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No test tube can breed love and affection. No frozen packet of semen ever read a story to a sleepy child.
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Now here I was, half Jane Wyman, half Shirley Temple, and people began to stop me in the street and say, 'Don't worry, Barbara, it's all right, you won't lose your job.' It was really very touching.
Source: Chris Chase, A Talk With the Unsinkable Barbara Walters, New York Magazine (March 25, 1974) -
Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.
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Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.
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Shirley Jackson's writings are a must for aficionados of the gothic and of good literature.
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The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
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The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonna's or Mary Magdalene's.
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