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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.

Dorothy Parker

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
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.
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Easy Love People Sweet Yourself
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
The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Food Forever People
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
[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
Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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Armor Protection Safety Weapon
And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Himself Run Stay
If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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Appearance Clothes Fashion Party 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
Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Acceptance Leaving Myself
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
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Fingers Hands Leaving Love Wisdom
Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Acceptance Leaving Myself
This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn’t touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
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Fools Myself Sorry Touch
I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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Man Myself Relationship Requirement Stupidity
Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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Alcohol Quick Vice
All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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Enough Friendship Need Room
Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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Enough Jealous Satisfaction Wine
The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
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Atmosphere Best Children Home
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
The only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
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Depend Law Life Thinking Worst Yourself
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
That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Language No Talk Woman
Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Acceptance Leaving Myself
They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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Sick Storm
I’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money.
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Goodness Money Myself Togetherness Writing

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