It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
BETTE DAVISThe act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God’s joke on humanity. It is man’s last desperate stand at superintendency.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.
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Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
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It’s a very independent male creature that lives alone, and a lot of independent females who live alone. It’s all very sad but it’s much easier for both sexes to do it this way nowadays.
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Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they’re too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.
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At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door.
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I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
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Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
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You should know me well enough by now to know I don’t ask for things I don’t think I can get.
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I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.
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I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
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I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
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You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
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There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
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I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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