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I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I’m under the table/After four I’m under my host.

Dorothy Parker

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
The only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
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Depend Law Life Thinking Worst Yourself
Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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Goodness Hide Safety Treasure Woman
Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I’ll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!
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Future Love Past Seek Sorrow
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
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
I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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Hate Myself People Rich
Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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Beyond Live Wild
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
All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don’t catch horses going around looking like people, do you?
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Animal Business People Right Yourself
Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie.
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Deny Fake Lying Storm Trouble
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
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
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Better Death Goodness Herself Judgement
Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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Appearance Girl Man Wear
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
But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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Forget Give Up Inspirational Myself One Liner

I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I’m under the table/After four I’m under my host.

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