Jacqueline Susann quotes
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“Never judge anyone by another's opinions. We all have different sides that we show to different people.”
-- Jacqueline SusannSource : Jacqueline Susann (2016). “Valley of the Dolls 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.31, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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“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.”
-- Jacqueline SusannSource : Jacqueline Susann (2016). “Valley of the Dolls: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.71, Tiger L.L.C.
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“I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature…literature should be left to essayists.”
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“Money bought freedom; without it one could never be free.”
-- Jacqueline SusannSource : Jacqueline Susann (2016). “Valley of the Dolls 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.185, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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“Did money give people a blind spot? Rob them of their hearing?”
-- Jacqueline SusannSource : Jacqueline Susann (2016). “Valley of the Dolls: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.59, Tiger L.L.C.
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“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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“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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“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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“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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“The 60s will be remembered for The Beatles, Andy Warhol and Me!”
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“Do not measure the number of tragedies you sustain, but to quantify the success you derive from them.”
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“Everyone has an identity. One of their own, and one for show.”
-- Jacqueline SusannSource : Jacqueline Susann (2016). “Valley of the Dolls: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.117, Tiger L.L.C.
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“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.”
-- Jacqueline SusannSource : Jacqueline Susann (2016). “Valley of the Dolls: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.299, Tiger L.L.C.
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“Acting is glamour but writing is hard work, so I'm going to be an actress.”
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“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.”
-- Jacqueline SusannSource : Jacqueline Susann (2015). “Valley of the Dolls”, p.388, Tiger LLC
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“I've got a library copy of Gone with the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! What an orgy!”
-- Jacqueline SusannSource : Jacqueline Susann (2016). “Valley of the Dolls 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.22, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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“A man must feel he runs things, but as long as you control yourself, you control him.”
-- Jacqueline SusannSource : Jacqueline Susann (2016). “Valley of the Dolls: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.160, Tiger L.L.C.
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“Never let anyone shame you into doing anything you don't choose to do. Keep your identity.”
-- Jacqueline SusannSource : Jacqueline Susann (2016). “Valley of the Dolls: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.117, Tiger L.L.C.
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“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.”
-- Jacqueline SusannSource : Jacqueline Susann (2016). “Valley of the Dolls: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.53, Tiger L.L.C.
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“Philip Roth is a good writer, but I wouldn't want to shake hands with him.”
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