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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.

Dorothy Parker

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
A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
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Best Friendship Girl Herself
I hate writing, I love having written.
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Hate Love Myself Writing
That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Language No Talk Woman
You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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Herself Leadership Thinking Yourself
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
The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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Big Earth Fools Love Man Woman
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
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
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
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
A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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Fight Liberty Man Room Start
Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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Alcohol Quick Vice
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
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
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

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