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By the time you swear you’re his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this — One of you is lying.

Dorothy Parker

[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that’s much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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Big Enough Friendship Funny Home Need Place Room
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
Women and elephants never forget.
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Animal Forget Funny Woman
Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Death God
Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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Change Funny Life Myself Oneself Sex Story
Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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Letter Look Word
Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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Act Quick
Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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Myself Tone View Voice
Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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Brave Doctor Serious
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
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
You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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Herself Leadership Thinking 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
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
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
That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
DOROTHY PARKER

Language No Talk Woman

By the time you swear you’re his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this — One of you is lying.

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By the time you swear you’re his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this — One of you is lying.

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