Jean Kerr (July 10, 1922 -January 5, 2003) was an American author and playwright

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A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.
Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck-if you survive you start looking very carefully to the right and left.
Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living.
Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.
I feel about airplaines the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.
Life with Mary was like being in a telephone booth with an open umbrella-no matter which way you turned, you got it in the eye.
Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he _becomes_ polite.
One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.
The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.
You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.

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