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"Get hot is my slogan," TEXAS GUINAN told a NYC columnist. She said many amusing things. Here are a few well-known quips — — Guinanisms.
• • "I'm nature's gift to the padlock makers."
• • "Hello, suckers! Come in and leave your wallet on the bar."
• • "A sucker is a guy who can afford to be trimmed."
• • "Exaggerate the world."
• • "A big butter and egg man."
• • “You may be all the world to your mother, but you’re just a cover charge to me.”
• • "He'll be happy — — 'til he sees the check."
• • "Let's give the little lady a great big hand!"
• • "I like noise, rhinestone heels, customers, plenty of attention and red velvet bathing suits."
• • "I smoke like a 5-alarm fire and I call every man I don't know Fred — — and they love it."
• • "I like your cute little jail. It's the only place my diamonds feel safe."
• • "I lost money by keeping out of prison. I could have gone to jail and made a killing telling about my experiences."
• • “Fifty million Frenchmen can't be wrong.”
• • "A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country."
• • "A guy who'd cheat on his wife would cheat at cards."
• • "Success has killed more men than bullets."
• • "I go up and down the scale so often that if they ever perform an autopsy on me they'll find me like a strip of bacon — — a streak of lean and a streak of fat."
• • "Marriage is all right, but I think it's carrying love a little bit too far."
• • "I've been married once on the level and twice in America."
• • "Love is the sugar coating on the cake of trouble."
• • "He bought me so many orchids that I looked like a well-kept grave."
• • "I would rather have a square inch of New York than all the rest of the world."
• • "Better a square foot of New York City than all the rest of the world in a lump — — better a lamppost on Broadway than the brightest star in the sky."
• • "If you want anything bad enough, go out and fight for it. Work day and night in order to achieve the goal. Sacrifice your time, your peace, your sleep. Sweat for it, fret for it, plan for it. Lose your terror of God and man for it. Hold fast to the pillars of faith, hope, confidence, stern pertinacity. Defy cold poverty, pain of body and brain. Besiege and beset for it, and you’re bound to win."

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• • The legal battles fought by Mae West and Jim Timony are dramatized in the play "Courting Mae West: Sex, Censorship, and Secrets," set during the Prohibition Era. Texas Guinan is in some scenes, too. Watch a scene on YouTube.
• • Website for all things Mae West — http://MaeWest.blogspot.com

• • Exciting Texas Guinan news is on the horizon. More anon.
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