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The only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

Dorothy Parker

Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
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Boredom Elegant Manner Right
I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
DOROTHY PARKER

Man Myself Relationship Requirement Stupidity
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
They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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Quiet Storm
If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
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Feeling Hurt Necessary Yourself
There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
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Distance Hell Simplicity Sports Truth Word
Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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Death Growth Rose Willing
I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I’m under the table/After four I’m under my host.
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Drink Food Funny Myself
That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Language No Talk Woman
The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
DOROTHY PARKER

Education Learning Yourself
There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
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Around Charm Done Stop
And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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Burn Heart Myself Safety Scars
The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
DOROTHY PARKER

Big Earth Fools Love Man Woman
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
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
I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
DOROTHY PARKER

Easy Love People Sweet Yourself

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