Jacqueline Susann Quotes

#1. Everyone has an identity. One of their own, and one for show.

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#2. Before I came to New York I lived here, in this mausoleum. I was nothing. I was dead. When I came to New York it was like a veil lifting. For the first time I felt I was alive, breathing.

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#3. The second draft is on yellow paper, that's when I work on characterizations. The third is pink, I work on story motivations. Then blue, that's where I cut, cut, cut.

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#4. Close friendships with girls come early in life. After thirty it becomes harder to make new friends - there are fewer hopes, dreams or anticipations to share.

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#5. Helen Lawson: They drummed you out of Hollywood, so you come crawling back to Broadway. But Broadway doesn't go for booze and dope. Now get out of my way, I've got a man waiting for me.

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#6. Neely O'Hara: [drunk in a bar] Who's stoned? I am merely traveling incognito.

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#7. Never let anyone shame you into doing anything you don't choose to do. Keep your identity.

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#8. A new book is just like any new product, like a detergent. You have to acquaint people with it. They have to know it's there. You only get to be number one when the public knows about you.

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#9. Alone on the summit of Mount Everest.

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#10. Everyone should at least try to do the thing he wants to do. Later in life situations and responsibilities force people to compromise. But to compromise now ... it's like quitting before you start.

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#11. I wanted to write it long before I wrote Every Night, Josephine! I'd been thinking about it a long time.

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#12. Do not measure the number of tragedies you sustain, but to quantify the success you derive from them.

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#13. The 60s will be remembered for The Beatles, Andy Warhol and Me!

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#14. I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature ... literature should be left to essayists.

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#15. Acting is glamour but writing is hard work, so I'm going to be an actress.

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#16. Each time it would hurt less, and afterward she would love Lyon less, until one day there would be nothing left - no hurt, and no love. She

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#17. As a writer no one's gonna tell me how to write, I'm gonna write the way I wanna write!

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#18. Philip Roth is a good writer, but I wouldn't want to shake hands with him.

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#19. People parted, years passed, they met again- and the meeting proved no reunion, offered no warm memories, only the acid knowledge that time had passed and things weren't as bright or attractive as they had been.

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#20. I've got a library copy of Gone with the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! What an orgy!

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#21. A man must feel he runs things, but as long as you control yourself, you control him.

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#22. She was climbing Mount Everest and the air was invigorating and wonderful. Even if every second verged on crisis, this was part of living - not just watching from the sidelines.

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#23. Helen Lawson: The only hit that comes out of a Helen Lawson show is Helen Lawson, and that's ME, baby, remember?

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#24. When you're climbing Mount Everest, nothing is easy. You just take one step at a time, never look back and always keep your eyes glued to the top.

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#25. Yes, there's one thing I do want. I want to be aware of the minutes and the seconds, and to make each one count.

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#26. Money bought freedom; without it one could never be free.

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#27. No one should give up a dream without giving it a chance to come true.

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#28. Never judge anyone by another's opinions. We all have different sides that we show to different people.

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#29. Did money give people a blind spot? Rob them of their hearing?

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#30. Love shouldn't make a beggar of one. I wouldn't want love if I had to beg for it, to barter or qualify it. And I should despise it if anyone ever begged for my love. Love is something that must be given
it can't be bought with words or pity, or even reason.

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