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It’s true we don’t know what we’ve got until its gone, but we don’t know what we’ve been missing until it arrives. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.

Bette Davis

You know what nostalgia is, don’t you? It’s basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.
BETTE DAVIS

Fun Pain Yourself
I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.
BETTE DAVIS

Character Myself
It’s a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
BETTE DAVIS

Intelligent Marriage Men
I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
BETTE DAVIS

Empowerment Inspirational Women
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 DAVIS

Experience Myself Reward Shapes
Getting old is not for sissies.
BETTE DAVIS

Age Old
One can be respected with the truth in Hollywood just as much as anywhere else you know or else I wouldn’t have had a career.
BETTE DAVIS

Career Careers Hollywood Myself Respect Truth
I work to stay alive.
BETTE DAVIS

Alive Myself
I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
BETTE DAVIS

Female Generation Myself
The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
BETTE DAVIS

Actors Heart Reality
Success only breeds a new goal
BETTE DAVIS

Born Goal Success
One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.
BETTE DAVIS

Brain Enemy Myself Thinking
What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
BETTE DAVIS

Hollywood Important Legs
A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
BETTE DAVIS

Expense Happiness Lose
If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
BETTE DAVIS

Career Life Myself
You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
BETTE DAVIS

Hate Yourself

It’s true we don’t know what we’ve got until its gone, but we don’t know what we’ve been missing until it arrives. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.

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It’s true we don’t know what we’ve got until its gone, but we don’t know what we’ve been missing until it arrives. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.

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