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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm

Dorothy Parker

Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
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Age Choice Clothes Grave Life Style Time Yourself
The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Food Forever People
Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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Death Growth Rose Willing
Writing well is the best revenge.
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One Liner Revenge Writing
People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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Death People Young
A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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Fight Liberty Man Room Start
I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.
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Best Books Hands Myself Run
Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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Creativity Discipline Eyes Mindset Wild
The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
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Atmosphere Best Children Home
Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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Break Friendship Time
The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Food Forever People
If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
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End Surprise Woman
If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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Company Myself Talk Yourself
You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
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Action Responsibility Yourself
Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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Appearance Beautiful Greatness Healing Myself Time
Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!
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Action Hate Hell Identity Love Myself Yourself
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
The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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Avoid Best Drink Stay Way
They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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Sick Storm
Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
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Boredom Elegant Manner Right
Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
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Friendship Mom Pregnant Yourself
The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Food Forever People
Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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City Place Search
The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
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Education Learning Yourself
The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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Cheating Hollywood Reality
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
I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
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End Happiness History Human Willing

They tire of quiet, that have known the storm

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