It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.

—Tallulah Bankhead

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About Tallulah Bankhead

Portrait of Tallulah Bankhead

Tallulah Brockman Bankhead (January 31, 1902 – December 12, 1968) was an American actress. Primarily an actress of the stage, Bankhead also appeared in several films including an award-winning performance in Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat (1944). She also had a brief but successful career on radio and made appearances on television....

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They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.

—Tallulah Bankhead

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

—Tallulah Bankhead

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

—Tallulah Bankhead

Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.

—Tallulah Bankhead

I'm as pure as the driven slush.

—Tallulah Bankhead

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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.

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It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.

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Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.

—Lawrence Clark Powell

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I am, and always have been, a revolutionary writer, because our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality is an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes, our power wielded by cowards and weaklings, and our honor false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons.

—George Bernard Shaw

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A couple of months ago I had a dream, which I remember with the utmost clarity. (I don't usually remember my dreams.) I dreamed I had died and gone to Heaven. I looked about and knew where I was—green fields, fleecy clouds, perfumed air, and the distant, ravishing sound of the heavenly choir. And there was the recording angel smiling broadly at me in greeting. I said in wonder, "Is this Heaven?" The recording angel said, "It is." I said (and on waking and remembering, I was proud of my integrity), "But there must be a mistake. I don't belong here. I'm an atheist." "No mistake," said the recording angel. "But as an atheist how can I qualify?" The recording angel said sternly, "We decide who qualifies. Not you." "I see," I said. I looked about, pondered for a moment, then turned to the recording angel and asked, "Is there a typewriter here that I can use?" The significance of the dream was clear to me. I felt Heaven to be the act of writing, and I have been in Heaven for over half a century, and I have always known this.

—Isaac Asimov

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