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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.

Dorothy Parker

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?
DOROTHY PARKER

Animal Business People Right Yourself
Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.
DOROTHY PARKER

Challenge Honesty Survive Test Yourself
And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Himself Run Stay
Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
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Appreciate Audience Goodness Intelligence Myself Praise Talk
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
And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
DOROTHY PARKER

Himself Run Stay
Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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Clean Dirty Hands Nature Play Target Yourself
Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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Act Quick
Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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Myself Tone View Voice
I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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Man Myself Relationship Requirement Stupidity
There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
DOROTHY PARKER

Distance Hell Simplicity Sports Truth Word
I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
DOROTHY PARKER

Change Myself Word Writing
Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Acceptance Leaving Myself
Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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Diamond Health Money Myself
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
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

I can’t write five words but that I change seven.

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