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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.

Dorothy Parker

Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
DOROTHY PARKER

Goodness Hide Safety Treasure Woman
You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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Old Teaching Trick Yourself
And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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Burn Heart Myself Safety Scars
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
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
If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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Appearance Fashion Funny Love Sex
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
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
I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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Change Myself Word 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
They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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Sick Storm
Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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Art Seat Writing
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
Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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Creativity Discipline Eyes Mindset Wild
Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
DOROTHY PARKER

Acceptance Leaving Myself
If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
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Dance End Surprise Woman Young

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