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I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.

— Louise Brooks Lulu in Hollywood (1982)

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A well-dressed woman, even if her purse is painfully empty, can conquer the world.

I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept it without wishing I had given it away.

Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.

The rest of the girls wore smiles as fixed as their towering feather headdresses. I decided right then that onstage I would never smile unless I felt like it.

I was simply playing myself, which is the hardest thing in the world to do – if you know that it’s hard. I didn’t, so it seemed easy.

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