There even are places where English completely disappears. In America, they haven’t used it for years!
ALAN JAY LERNERWe met at nine We met at eight I was on time No, you were late Ah yes! I remember it well.
More Alan Jay Lerner Quotes
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You see what happens today. Women act like men and want to be treated like women.
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Lots of cosy sky That God and I can share. I need air. I need air.
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Why can’t the English teach their children how to speak?
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Back home everyone said I didn’t have any talent. They might be saying the same thing over here, but it sounds better in French.
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For a painter, the Mecca of the world for study, for inspiration, and for living is here on this star called Paris.
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Why can’t a woman be more like a man?
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I could have danced all night!
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It’s not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
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Thank heaven for little girls! For little girls get bigger every day.
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If you can’t paint in Paris, you’d better give up and marry the boss’s daughter.
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Men die but an idea does not.
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The female sex has no greater fan than I, and I have the bills to prove it.
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You will follow every mountain, sea and shore, You will see from far and near a world you’ve never seen before.
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I’m getting married in the morning! / Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime.
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Eternally noble, historically fair; Who, when you win, will always give your back a pat. Why can’t a woman be like that?
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