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A girl’s best friend is her mutter.

Dorothy Parker

The writer’s way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?
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Clean Professional Way Writing
Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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Creativity Discipline Eyes Mindset Wild
Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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City Place Search
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
Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!
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Action Hate Hell Identity Love Myself Yourself
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
Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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Appearance Beautiful Greatness Healing Myself Time
You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
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Action Responsibility Yourself
Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Death God
The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Food Forever People
They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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Quiet Storm
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
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 hate writing, I love having written.
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Hate Love Myself 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
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

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