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“To her British lover about to climb in bed with 80-something Mae: She said that she hoped soon to be able to say what Paul Revere said — 'The British are coming'. This was the last one-liner Mae ever uttered on film.”

Mae West (1893–1980) American actress and sex symbol

Sextette

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“It's not the men in your life that matters, it's the life in your men.”

Mae West (1893–1980) American actress and sex symbol

I'm No Angel (1933)

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“I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.”

Mae West (1893–1980) American actress and sex symbol

Interview http://books.google.com/books?id=jU8EAAAAMBAJ&q=%22I+used+to+be+Snow+White+but+I+drifted%22&pg=PA64-IA1#v=onepage in Life magazine (18 April 1969)

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“Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.”

Mae West (1893–1980) American actress and sex symbol

#684 in The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (2006) by Robert Byrne

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“To a young actor: How tall are you without your horse? Six foot, seven inches. Never mind the six feet. Let's talk about the seven inches!”

Mae West (1893–1980) American actress and sex symbol

Myra Breckinridge (1970)

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“I've always had a weakness for foreign affairs.”

Mae West (1893–1980) American actress and sex symbol

Person-to-Person interview (CBS) with Charles Collingwood, September 1959 http://books.google.com/books?id=21R_KPMzH2EC&q="I've+always+had+a+weakness+for+foreign+affairs"&pg=PA82#v=onepage

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“Between two evils, I generally like to pick the one I never tried before.”

Mae West (1893–1980) American actress and sex symbol

Klondike Annie (1936) Sometimes quoted as: "When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before."'

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“When women go wrong, men go right after them.”

Mae West (1893–1980) American actress and sex symbol

She Done Him Wrong (1933)

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“I've been in more laps than a napkin.”

Mae West (1893–1980) American actress and sex symbol

#685 in The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (2006) by Robert Byrne

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“When I'm good, I'm very good. When I'm bad, I'm better.”

Mae West (1893–1980) American actress and sex symbol

I'm No Angel (1933)

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“I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.”

Mae West (1893–1980) American actress and sex symbol

I'm No Angel (1933)

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„Az ott pisztoly a zsebében, vagy csak ennyire örül, hogy lát?”

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Mae West (1893–1980) amerikai színésznő, énekesnő

Original: A Peel Me a Grape cimű filmben

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„Tudom, mi a különbség egy rendes pasi meg egy nem rendes pasi között, de még nem döntöttem el, melyiket szeretem jobban.”

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Mae West (1893–1980) amerikai színésznő, énekesnő

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“An illiterate, underbred book it seems to me; the book of a self-taught working man, and we all know how distressing they are, how egotistic, insistent, raw, striking, and ultimately nauseating. When one can have the cooked flesh, why have the raw?”

Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) English writer

Diary entry on James Joyce's Ulysses (16 August 1922), quoted in Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary (1953; 1965), p. 47

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“What she loved was this, here, now, in front of her; the fat lady in the cab. Did it matter then, she asked herself, walking towards Bond Street, did it matter that she must inevitably cease completely; all this must go on without her; did she resent it; or did it not become consoling to believe that death ended absolutely? but that somehow in the streets of London, on the ebb and flow of things, here there, she survived. Peter survived, lived in each other, she being part, she was positive, of the trees at home; of the house there, ugly, rambling all to bits and pieces as it was; part of people she had never met; being laid out like a mist between the people she knew best, who lifted her on their branches as she had seen the trees lift the mist, but it spread ever so far, her life, herself.”

Virginia Woolf book Mrs Dalloway

Mrs Dalloway (1925)

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“While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the mind take its way unimpeded. Over the obscure man is poured the merciful suffusion of darkness. None knows where he goes or comes. He may seek the truth and speak it; he alone is free; he alone is truthful, he alone is at peace.”

Virginia Woolf book Orlando: A Biography

Source: Orlando: A Biography (1928), Ch. 2

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“Directly the mulberry tree begins to make you circle, break off. Pelt the tree with laughter.”

Virginia Woolf book Three Guineas

Source: Three Guineas (1938), Ch. 2, p. 80