Jean Kerr Quotes

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The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.

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If you can keep your head when all about are losing theirs, it's just possible that you haven't grasped the situation.

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Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living.

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Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.

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Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.

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I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want—an adorable pancreas?

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I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.

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Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.

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You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy, because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.

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Now the thing about having a baby — and I can't be the first person to have noticed this — is that thereafter you have it.

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Don't be silly. I'm a mature, intelligent woman. Of course I'm afraid of my mother.

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I was always the last woman on the last down elevator as the store was closing.

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You can't sleep until noon with the proper élan unless you have some legitimate reason for staying up until three (parties don't count).

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Movie actors are just ordinary mixed-up people—with agents.

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I have noticed that in plays where the characters on stage laugh a great deal, the people out front laugh very little.

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An actor can remember his briefest notice well into senescence and long after he has forgotten his phone number and where he lives.

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What is missing in him is probably necessary for what is missing in you. Let us not to the marriage of true impediments admit minds.

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I once truly believed that if I had to stand in line for twenty minutes to have a package gift-wrapped it actually gave the recipient more pleasure.

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In the beginning, we made the usual mistake of looking at houses we could afford. I am working on a proposition, hereafter to be known as Kerr's law, which states in essence: All the houses you can afford to buy are depressing.

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I don't grasp things this early in the day. I mean, I hear voices, all right, but I can't pick out the verbs.

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The most important thing about me is that I am a Catholic. It's a superstructure within which you can work, like a sonnet.

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As someone pointed out recently, if you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

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A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, any more than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.

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I know what I wish Ralph Nader would investigate next. Marriage. It's not safe, it's not safe at all.

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If you have formed the habit of checking on every new diet that comes along, you will find that, mercifully, they all blur together, leaving you with only one definite piece of information: french-fried potatoes are out.

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I'm not so sure it's so civilized to be civilized all the time.

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The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.

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Some enterprising youth should go from door to door on Christmas morning peddling batteries.

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One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is the assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.

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When our Gregory was about two years old, he had the power and the velocity of a torpedo. So the simple business of taking off his clothes and putting on his pajamas turned into a chore roughly equivalent to the landing of a two-hundred-pound marlin.

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