Jean Kerr - Mary, Mary (1963)

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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 want to analyze, analyze. Like those people who take an overdose of sleeping pills, and sit there making notes while they're dying. 'Four a.m. Vision beginning to blur.' You'd do that. You would.

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It was hard to communicate with you. You were always communicating with yourself. The line was busy.

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Life with Mary was like being in a telephone booth with an open umbrella — no matter which way you turned, you got it in the eye.

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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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'I thought we talked things out!' 'Yes, and you listened very carefully to every word you had to say.'

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It's impossible to register any emotion without using some muscle which, in time, will produce a wrinkle.... By the time she is thirty, a starlet has been carefully taught to smile like a dead halibut. The eyes widen, the mouth drops open, but the eye muscles are never involved.

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I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.

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

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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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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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