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" I read poetry to save time. "
Marilyn Monroe
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Poetry
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" My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I'm not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I'm 50? "
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" What good am I? I can't have kids. I can't cook. I've been divorced three times. Who would want me? "
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