Movies · 1958
Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!
— Mame Dennis ‧ Auntie Mame
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
Mame imagines life as a feast that too many people refuse to taste. The extravagant image expresses her enthusiasm for experience and her impatience with fear, narrow habits and respectability.
- AFI100 Movie Quotes, number93; selected film wording and same-film synopsis.Reference checked
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