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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.

Dorothy Parker

I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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Easy Love People Sweet Yourself
You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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Old Teaching Trick Yourself
Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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Act Quick
Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
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Dance Death Drink Laughter
Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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Genius Material Talent Writing
But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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Forget Give Up Inspirational Myself One Liner
The Monte Carlo casino refused to admit me until I was properly dressed so I went and found my stockings, and then came back and lost my shirt.
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Appearance Fashion Lost Myself
Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Death God
There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
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Distance Hell Simplicity Sports Truth Word
People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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Death People Young
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
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Book Force Funny Greatness Light
Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
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Identity Literature Study Yourself
Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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Enough Jealous Satisfaction Wine
The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Food Forever People
A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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Alcohol Angry Food Funny Grapes Wine
If I didn’t care for fun and such, I’d probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.
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Care Fun Myself Stay

Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.

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