I don’t feel the slightest interest in the next world; I think it’s here. And I think anything good that you’re going to do, you should do for other people here and not so you can try to have a happy time in the next world.
KATHARINE HEPBURNI don’t think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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I don’t fear death, it must be like a long sleep.
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I’m a legend because I’ve survived over a long period of time and still seem to be master of my fate – I’m still paddling the goddamned boat myself.
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Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.
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You give because you love and cannot help giving.
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People who want to be famous are really loners. Or they should be.
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Isn’t it fun getting older? is really a terrible fallacy. That’s like saying I prefer driving an old car with a flat tire.
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Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I’m past that age.
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I was born lucky, and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky.
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To be loved is very demoralizing.
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Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only what you are expecting to give — which is everything. What you will receive in return varies. But it really has no connection with what you give. You give because you love and cannot help giving.
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Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.
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People think that I’m tough and strong and that I kicked my way through everything. But they are wrong. The truth is that when I was young I was adorable and a trembling wreck.
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Cold sober, I find myself absolutely fascinating.
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You are the only person you can actually change.
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Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I’ve had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.
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