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Writing well is the best revenge.

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
A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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Fight Liberty Man Room Start
Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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Bad Death Feeling Myself Time
Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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Beyond Live Wild
That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Language No Talk Woman
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
Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
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Dance Death Drink Laughter
A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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Alcohol Angry Food Funny Grapes Wine
Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Acceptance Leaving Myself
His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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Bed Himself Voice
Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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Break Friendship Time
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
Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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Clean Dirty Hands Nature Play Target Yourself
That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Language No Talk Woman
Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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City Place Search
Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
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Boredom Elegant Manner Right
Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Death God
People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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Death People Young
I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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Man Myself Relationship Requirement Stupidity
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
The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Food Forever People
Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Death God
The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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Avoid Best Drink Stay Way
Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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Appearance Girl Man Wear
Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
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Identity Literature Study Yourself
All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don’t catch horses going around looking like people, do you?
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Animal Business People Right Yourself
I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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Hate Myself People Rich

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