Closing these two books, a reader senses that Joan Crawford, idol of an age, would have made an exemplary prison matron, possibly at Buchenwald. She had the requisite sadism, paranoia and taste for violence.

Quote by Harriet Van Horne

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There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems...

There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems...

One who roams the channels after dark, searching for buried treasure.

One who roams the channels after dark, searching for buried treasure.

Cooking is like making love, you do it well, or you do not do it...

Cooking is like making love, you do it well, or you do not do it...

Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.

Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.

In high school you can think you're in love; but I believe you have to...

In high school you can think you're in love; but I believe you have to...

Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a...

Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a...

Youth lives on hope, old age on remembrance

Youth lives on hope, old age on remembrance

Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I...

Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I...

No matter where you go, always do your duty as you see it and know...

No matter where you go, always do your duty as you see it and know...

. . . Charles Darnay seemed to stand in a company of the dead. Ghosts...

. . . Charles Darnay seemed to stand in a company of the dead. Ghosts...

Study until 25, investigate until 40, profession until 60, at which age I would have...

Study until 25, investigate until 40, profession until 60, at which age I would have...

At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to...

At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to...

All, all of a piece throughout; Thy chase had a beast in view; Thy wars...

All, all of a piece throughout; Thy chase had a beast in view; Thy wars...

Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated...

Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated...

And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried...

And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried...

But probably every age gets, within certain limits, the science it deserves.

But probably every age gets, within certain limits, the science it deserves.

No one has ever come back from the other world. I can't console you, but...

No one has ever come back from the other world. I can't console you, but...

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

One would imagine that books were, like women, the worse for being old : that...

One would imagine that books were, like women, the worse for being old : that...

Fight shy of the medicine which thy mother and thy father, thy sister and thy...

Fight shy of the medicine which thy mother and thy father, thy sister and thy...