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“I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am 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

“She felt sorry for everyone in the world because they couldn’t feel as she did. Oh you poor people, you think this is just another cold day. Look at me – I want to tell you how happy I am! The whole world belongs to me. In this very house there is a man, the most wonderful man in the world, and he belongs to me.” – Valley of The Dolls

John Foreman later summarized the classic conundrum of marriages in the 1950s: “The guy rides up on a white horse, sweeps the girl off her feet, and says, ‘Marry me and I’ll give you everything you want.’ Years pass and the wife comes to the painful conclusion that she is miserable. ‘Why are you unhappy?’ asks the husband. ‘What do you want?’ ‘I don’t know,’ the wife responds helplessly. ‘I thought you knew and were going to give it to me.’ ” – Vanity Fair.Com

“When one vows at the onset of a marriage to live together “for better or worse” one anticipates little of the “for worse” scenario. Yet heartache , tragedy, sickness and death are invariably a part of the marriage, especially in the later years. Then one is particularly grateful for the support and love of a lifelong partner- someone who remembers you as you once were and who continues to care for you as you are now. To be the intimate witness of another person’s life is a privilege one can full appreciate with time. To have weathered the storms of early and middle marriage- the turmoil of children, the death of one’s parents, the adult struggles of ones own children- can create an irreplaceable attachment to the person who has shared that history with you.”

- History of Wife by Marilyn Yalom

“Greed, meaning an unseemly or immoral desire for more, does not exist because there is nothing wrong with want. No one except Scrooge McDuck wants money for its own sake. We want it for what it’ll buy.

Consider how silly it is to apply the concept of greed to the things money gets. If I want fresh fruits and vegetables instead of Spaghetti-Os, am I guilty of nutritional greed? If I want first-class instead of steerage, am I guilty of leg-room greed? If I want to drive my kid around in a Range Rover/Escalade/M1 Abrams Tank instead of a tiny, tinny death trap am I guilty of safety greed? Wanting things to be better is human. Is it immoral to be human?

Greed is a term applied exclusively to other people who are doing better than we are. At some higher tax bracket, people supposedly have “enough” and should stop trying to make their lives better. (Never mind that greed would, if it existed, obviously be good — high earners spread money to the McMansion builders, the BMW dealers and all the way down to the waitresses and shoeshine men. This process is called a “multiplier effect” if government spending drives it, “trickle-down economics” if it’s in the private sector.)

How can there ever be such a thing as “enough?” If you live to be 90 and are still healthy, you will have had a much longer run than most. Should you kill yourself? If you have a nice house, why wouldn’t you work to add a swimming pool? Why shouldn’t you, like Jerry Seinfeld, build a full-sized baseball field? Who are the victims of Jerry’s “greed?” Hamptons landscapers?

“What ’s Wrong with Wanting More? Nothing” – Kyle Smith, Ny Post

“Right then and there they were looking at each other in a way we all want to be looked at. That’s whats its all about, I realized. That moment, played out in a thousand movies scenes, is what we all want to find in real life. This is what makes all the other stuff bearable. And though I’ve never been able to understand spending thousands and thousands of dollars on a wedding. To have that moment, I would spend a Million.”
- “Cigarette Girl” By: Carol Wolper

” Keep Smiling… It will make people wonder what trouble you’ve been up to.”

“I know you’ve been stressed after another roller coaster week on Wall Street. Take a Breathe. We are going to be fine America, It’s all going to be Okay. Let’s take a moment in the midst of this financial storm or whatever crisis is going on in you life, and not thing about what we’ve lost, But think about what we’ve found. Let’s think about graditude. Let’s think about the grace we’ve been given.”

My Favorite Quote From The Film…

“When she appears… all eyes are on her. She is the subject of universal conversation. And what we see her wearing tonight, I look forward to seeing the rest of you wear tomorrow. The empress of Fashion herself, The duchess of Devonshire.”

“She had this crazy idea that if she selected exactly the right party, One that was the equivliant of attending: Six galley openings, Four museum benefits, Three dinners, And two major movie premieres all in one night. She would be guaranteed to leave at the end of the evening with a prospective husband on her arm for sure.”

- “Bergdorf Blondes” By : Plum Sykes