Grace Metalious - Peyton Place (1956)

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How easy it is, how dangerously easy it is to hate a man for one's own inadequacies.

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Dead folks can't hurt you none. It's the ones that are alive, you have to watch out for.

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Nude is a word as smooth as your hips... but naked has the sound of a rock being turned over to expose maggots.

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Didn't you ever notice how it's always people who wish they had somethin' or had done somethin' that hate the hardest?

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I have seldom, if ever, seen money and gentleness go hand in hand.

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There can be neither beauty, nor trust, nor security between a man and a woman if there is not truth.

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If I had to do it over again, it would be easier to be poor. Before I was successful, I was as happy as anyone gets.

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