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

Dorothy Parker

The writer’s way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?
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Clean Professional Way Writing
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 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
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
Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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Break Friendship Time
It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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Kill Mess Myself Tragedy
They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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Sick Storm
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
Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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Diamond Health Money Myself
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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Boredom Curious Deep
If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
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Deep God Himself Money People Thinking
What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
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Beautiful Clean Deep Order Skin Ugly
A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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Alcohol Angry Food Funny Grapes Wine
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
Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Death God
But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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Forget Give Up Inspirational Myself One Liner

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

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