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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.

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
The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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Big Earth Fools Love Man Woman
And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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Burn Heart Myself Safety Scars
I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.
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Best Books Hands Myself Run
I hate writing, I love having written.
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Hate Love Myself Writing
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
Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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Alcohol Quick Vice
The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Food Forever People
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
The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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Avoid Best Drink Stay Way
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
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Better Death Goodness Herself Judgement
Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Acceptance Leaving Myself
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
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
That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Language No Talk Woman
His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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Bed Himself Voice

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