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Marilyn Monroe
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  • "IF BOBBY WAS NEXT IN LINE FOR MARILYN MONROE, WHAT ELSE IS HE NEXT IN LINE FOR?" said Owen Meany.†  (source)
  • , about The Misfits, which we'd just watched on TV with Hobie, about Marilyn Monroe, whom we both loved ("a little springtime ghost") and about poor ruined Montgomery Clift walking around with handfuls of loose pills in his pockets (a detail I hadn't known, and didn't comment upon) and about the death of Clark Gable and how horribly guilty Marilyn had felt for it, how responsible—which somehow, oddly, spiraled into talk of Fate, and the occult, and fortune-telling: did birthdays have anything to do with luck, or lack of it?†  (source)
  • Picture in your mind the face of Marilyn Monroe  (source)
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  • It started out with famous people: Wonder Woman, the Beatles, Marilyn Monroe.... But then somebody thought it'd be better if we changed the game a little, if we pretended we were Mr. Benny, or his wife Blanca, or Ruthie, or anybody we knew.†  (source)
  • When he spoke of diamonds I naturally thought of Marilyn Monroe in her long gloves and pursey lips whispering "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend."†  (source)
  • "What Daddy means is that people used to like to go to the movies and see Marilyn Monroe," Wendy said, "but they might not like to go to see Marilyn Miller."†  (source)
  • The young girl who will become Marilyn Monroe, sweating away in a defense plant.†  (source)
  • He glinted his eyes enticingly at some jazzy-looking blond lady—Marilyn Monroe, or somebody—lounging on a billowy couch.†  (source)
  • Ashley went as Cleopatra, Sumner as a mad scientist, and Laurel Adams as Marilyn Monroe in a peroxide wig and a dress that I could tell my mother thought was entirely too tight.†  (source)
  • And of course, it didn't help any when Benjamin threw in his two cents, saying that I looked like Marilyn Monroe (I mean, how does he even know who Marilyn Monroe is, or was?)†  (source)
  • You remember the Marilyn Monroe calendar you saw in my studio.†  (source)
  • I couldn't get it up over old frozen face in there even if she had the beauty of Marilyn Monroe.†  (source)
  • Indeed, she speaks with the same breathy, almost childlike voice of actress Marilyn Monroe.†  (source)
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