"I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room."
-Mercedes McCambridge
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"I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.“
-Mercedes McCambridge
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"Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time."
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"My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol."
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"I've always had bronchitis. I've been administered the Sacrament of Death three times for it."
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"I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
-Marilyn Monroe
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"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
-Robert Frost
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"Death ends a life, not a relationship."
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"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death."
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"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."
-Thomas Mann
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