Jean Kerr - Please Don't Eat the Daisies

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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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Dearer to me than the evening star
A Packard car
A Hershey bar
Or a bride in her rich adorning
Dearer than any of these by far
Is to lie in bed in the morning.

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While in some quarters it is felt that the critic is just a necessary evil, most serious-minded, decent, talented theater people agree that the critic is an unnecessary evil.

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Years ago when a man began to notice that if he stood up on the subway he was immediately replaced by two people, he figured he was getting too fat.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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