Jacqueline Susann Quotes

• Never judge anyone by another's opinions. We all have different sides that we show to different people.

  Jacqueline Susann

  People, Judging, Different

  Jacqueline Susann (2016). “Valley of the Dolls 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.31, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• When you're climbing Mount Everest, nothing is easy. You just take one step at a time, never look back and always keep your eyes glued to the top.

  Jacqueline Susann

  Eye, Climbing, Looks

  Jacqueline Susann (2016). “Valley of the Dolls: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.71, Tiger L.L.C.

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• Everyone has an identity. One of their own, and one for show.

  Jacqueline Susann

  Identity, Shows

  Jacqueline Susann (2016). “Valley of the Dolls: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.117, Tiger L.L.C.

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• Never let anyone shame you into doing anything you don't choose to do. Keep your identity.

  Jacqueline Susann

  Identity, Shame

  Jacqueline Susann (2016). “Valley of the Dolls: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.117, Tiger L.L.C.

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• Yes, there's one thing I do want. I want to be aware of the minutes and the seconds, and to make each one count.

  Jacqueline Susann

  Want, Minutes, Seconds

  Jacqueline Susann (2016). “Valley of the Dolls: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.53, Tiger L.L.C.

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• Do not measure the number of tragedies you sustain, but to quantify the success you derive from them.

  Jacqueline Susann

  Numbers, Tragedy

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• Love shouldn't make a beggar of one. I wouldn't want love if I had to beg for it, to barter or qualify it. And I should despise it if anyone ever begged for my love. Love is something that must be given -- it can't be bought with words or pity, or even reason.

  Jacqueline Susann

  Love Is, Want, Pity

  Jacqueline Susann (2016). “Valley of the Dolls: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.299, Tiger L.L.C.

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• I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature…literature should be left to essayists.

  Jacqueline Susann

  Thinking, Novelists, Literature

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• A man must feel he runs things, but as long as you control yourself, you control him.

  Jacqueline Susann

  Running, Men, Long

  Jacqueline Susann (2016). “Valley of the Dolls: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.160, Tiger L.L.C.

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• As a writer no one's gonna tell me how to write. I'm gonna write the way I wanna write!

  Jacqueline Susann

  Writing, Way

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• A new book is just like any new product, like a detergent. You have to acquaint people with it. They have to know it's there. You only get to be number one when the public knows about you.

  Jacqueline Susann

  Book, Numbers, People

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• The 60s will be remembered for The Beatles, Andy Warhol and Me!

  Jacqueline Susann

  Warhol, Remembered

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• Acting is glamour but writing is hard work, so I'm going to be an actress.

  Jacqueline Susann

  Motivational, Hard Work, Writing

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• People parted, years passed, they met again- and the meeting proved no reunion, offered no warm memories, only the acid knowledge that time had passed and things weren't as bright or attractive as they had been.

  Jacqueline Susann

  Memories, Years, People

  Jacqueline Susann (2015). “Valley of the Dolls”, p.388, Tiger LLC

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• The second draft is on yellow paper, that's when I work on characterizations. The third is pink, I work on story motivations. Then blue, that's where I cut, cut, cut.

  Jacqueline Susann

  Motivation, Cutting, Blue

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• Money bought freedom; without it one could never be free.

  Jacqueline Susann

  Jacqueline Susann (2016). “Valley of the Dolls 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.185, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I've got a library copy of Gone with the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! What an orgy!

  Jacqueline Susann

  Wind, Library, Gone

  Jacqueline Susann (2016). “Valley of the Dolls 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.22, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Philip Roth is a good writer, but I wouldn't want to shake hands with him.

  Jacqueline Susann

  Hands, Want, Shakes

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• Did money give people a blind spot? Rob them of their hearing?

  Jacqueline Susann

  Blind Spots, People, Giving

  Jacqueline Susann (2016). “Valley of the Dolls: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.59, Tiger L.L.C.

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• I wanted to write it long before I wrote Every Night, Josephine! I'd been thinking about it a long time.

  Jacqueline Susann

  Writing, Night, Thinking

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