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Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.
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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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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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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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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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Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living.
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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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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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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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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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Children are different—mentally, physically, spiritually, quantitatively, qualitatively; and furthermore, they're all a little bit nuts.
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To me having a party is something like having a baby. The fact that you got through the last one alive is not somehow sufficiently reassuring now.
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Being on a ship is something like being pregnant. You can sit there and do absolutely nothing but stare at the water and have the nicest sense that you are accomplishing something.
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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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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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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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There's a flaw in your character, Oliver. You have a problem for every solution.
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I know all about improvisation and the free-form that mirrors the chaos of our time, but I do like to feel that the playwright has done some work before I got there.
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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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Some enterprising youth should go from door to door on Christmas morning peddling batteries.
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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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People only call you 'my dear' when they are irritated with you.
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Oh, wouldn't it be wonderful if some manufacturer would make a toy as tough, as staunch, as hard to crack open as the carton it comes in!
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Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze?
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Some people have such a talent for making the best of a bad situation that they go around creating bad situations so they can make the best of them.
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Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.
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Jean Kerr
Born:
July 10, 1922
Died:
January 5, 2003
(aged 80)
Bio:
Jean Kerr was an Irish-American author and playwright born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and best known for her humorous bestseller, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, and the plays King of Hearts and Mary, Mary.
Known for:
King of hearts
Please Don't Eat the Daisies
Union Oyster House Cookbook
Mary, Mary (1963)
Goldilocks
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