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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.

Dorothy Parker

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
Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
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Friendship Mom Pregnant Yourself
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
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Book Force Funny Greatness Light
I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
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End Happiness History Human Willing
Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Acceptance Leaving Myself
Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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Letter Look Word
It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.
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Entertainment Fun Goodness Myself
Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Death God
A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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Bad Food Growth Taste
Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Death God
All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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Enough Friendship Need Room
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
The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Food Forever People
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
[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that’s much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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Big Enough Friendship Funny Home Need Place Room

You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.

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