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After being so bad I could hear the angels singing.
Lillie Langtry
Angels
Being
Singing
Anyone who limits her vision to memories of yesterday is already dead.
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Vision
Limits
Memories
Yesterday
Why in the world would anyone want to photograph an old woman like me?
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Old
Want
Woman
World
They saw me, those reckless seekers of beauty, and in a night I was famous.
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Beauty
Famous
Night
The sentimentalist ages far more quickly than the person who loves his work and enjoys new challenges.
Lillie Langtry
Work
The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens.
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Gardens
Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain.
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Sympathy
Pain
Said I was beautiful, did he? He's being paid for treatment, not flattery.
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Being
Flattery
Treatment
On one night of my debut the Prince of Wales, the Princess, and the duchess of London came to see me. They loved me for what I was and what I gave them.
Lillie Langtry
London
Night
No person in the world ever lost anything by being nice to me.
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Being
World
My husband is a general's chauffeur somewhere in France.
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HusbFrance
My agent tells me I am drawing the largest salary ever paid in the halls of England. Wonderful, isn't it? for a quiet, rural gardener like myself.
Lillie Langtry
England
Quiet
It's the first time I've seen myself act, and I can't say I'm impressed.
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Time
Act
First
Will I return to England? I don't know. I'll think it over.
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England
Will
I've put in as many as 40 weeks a year on stage. It is lonely and restricted, as all artistic life must necessarily be.
Lillie Langtry
Life
Lonely