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I wanted that diamond because it is incomparably lovely. And it should be on the loveliest woman [Elizabeth Taylor] in the world.

— Richard Burton

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From then on, the stone came to be known as the 'Taylor-Burton diamond'

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This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.

I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby child. Our love is so furious that we burn each other out.

If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.

She can do everything…there’s nothing she can’t do...she looks after me so well. Thank God I’ve found her.’

The only thing in life is language. Not love. Not anything else.

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