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Karen Kijewski
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“Girls do what their mothers tell them. Ladies do what society tells them. Women make up their own minds.”
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“A five-year-old with a stick, a seed, and a watering can could grow zucchini — the original, no-talent, guaranteed-gratification vegetable. ... Tomatoes are the runner-up to zucchini in the no-talent, guaranteed-gratification vegetable department.”
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“Every good thing you do changes the balance in the universe.”
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“Walter has been a stockbroker for years. My theory is that he looked like one when he was born and naturally gravitated toward the profession.”
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“Guilt, the poor man's mind control.”
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“Hatred, like straw, makes for a lumpy mattress.”
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“[On Las Vegas:] ... The City That Never Sleeps. The City That Sins and Smiles and Lives On the Edge. The city where vices become virtues, become what everyone is here to do.”
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“To lose hope in the future is to begin to die.”
Karen Kijewski, U.S. writer
(1943)