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Bill's thirty-two. He looks thirty-two. He looked it five years ago, he'll look it twenty years from now. I hate men.

— Margo Channing · All About Eve

Three brown felt hats in a row on a pale blue shelf, the last with a yellow pin.
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The speaker complains about a man who never changes in appearance, past or future, and ends with a sweeping 'I hate men.' The humor is in the frustration: his sameness is presented as both annoying and impossible to argue with.

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