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Dorothy Parker

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
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
The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Food Forever People
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 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
Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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Identity Normal Popular
Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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Brave Doctor Serious
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
They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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Sick Storm
And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Himself Run Stay
I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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Hate Myself People Rich
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
Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
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Excitement Fortune Irritation
And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Himself Run Stay
Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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Beyond Live Wild
Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Acceptance Leaving Myself

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

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