With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.
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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Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you’re called very, very difficult you’re really nobody at all.
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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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Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
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I have been at war from the beginning. I’ve never looked back before. I’ve never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
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To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
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You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
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There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
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I work to stay alive.
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The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.
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The world’s all full of thoughts about wars and space, and tragedies to the world. That’s what writers are thinking about because that’s what the world is thinking about.
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I’ve been lucky. I’ll be lucky again.
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Among the reasons marriages fail, sex ranks no higher than fourth, behind money, having only one bathroom, and an inability to communicate, reasons one, two and three.
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There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
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Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
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