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Excess
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Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
-Tallulah Bankhead
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Identity
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Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
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Intelligence
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I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.
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Marriage
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No man worth his salt, no man of spirit and spine, no man for whom I could have any respect, could rejoice in the identification of Tallulah's husband. It's tough enough to be bogged down in a legend. It would be even tougher to marry one.
-Tallulah Bankhead
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Mental Illness
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I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.
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Mistakes
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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
-Tallulah Bankhead
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If I had my life to live again. I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
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Morals
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I'm as pure as the driven slush.
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Sex
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I've tried several varieties of sex. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic and the others give me a stiff neck or lockjaw.
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Theater
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It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work -- the night watchman.
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Books by and about Tallulah Bankhead