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Writing well is the best revenge.

Dorothy Parker

Women and elephants never forget.
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Animal Forget Funny Woman
A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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Bad Food Growth Taste
Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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Letter Look Word
You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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Old Teaching Trick Yourself
The Monte Carlo casino refused to admit me until I was properly dressed so I went and found my stockings, and then came back and lost my shirt.
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Appearance Fashion Lost 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
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
His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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Bed Himself Voice
If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
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Feeling Hurt Necessary Yourself
I’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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Character Drink Identity Myself Problem Writing
If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
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End Surprise Woman
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
There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
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Around Charm Done Stop
I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I’m under the table/After four I’m under my host.
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Drink Food Funny Myself
Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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Break Friendship Time
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

Writing well is the best revenge.

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