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Writing well is the best revenge.

Dorothy Parker

Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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Goodness Hide Safety Treasure Woman
Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Death God
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
Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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Alcohol Quick Vice
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
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
And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Himself Run Stay
Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
DOROTHY PARKER

Death God
Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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Bad Death Feeling Myself Time
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
His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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Bed Himself Voice
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
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
Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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Letter Look Word
And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
DOROTHY PARKER

Himself Run Stay
A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
DOROTHY PARKER

Bad Food Growth Taste

Writing well is the best revenge.

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