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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.

Dorothy Parker

Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.
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Challenge Honesty Survive Test Yourself
Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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Enough Jealous Satisfaction Wine
A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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Alcohol Angry Food Funny Grapes Wine
It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.
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Entertainment Fun Goodness Myself
I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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Change Myself Word Writing
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
Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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Armor Protection Safety Weapon
I don’t mind anything that’s written about me, as long as it’s not true.
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Mindset True Writing
I’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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Character Drink Identity Myself Problem Writing
I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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Man Myself Relationship Requirement Stupidity
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
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
Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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City Place Search
Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
DOROTHY PARKER

Acceptance Leaving Myself
That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Language No Talk Woman
Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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Brave Doctor Serious
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
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
If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.
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Friendship Greatness Happiness Present Writing Young
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
A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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Bad Food Growth Taste
A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
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Best Friendship Girl Herself
Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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Appearance Girl Man Wear
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
By the time you swear you’re his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this — One of you is lying.
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Death Lying Marriage Passion Promise Time Yourself
Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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Diamond Health Money Myself
Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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Myself Tone View Voice

A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.

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