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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.

Dorothy Parker

Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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Letter Look Word
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
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
Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.
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Challenge Honesty Survive Test Yourself
His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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Bed Himself Voice
That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Language No Talk Woman
[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
Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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Beyond Live Wild
I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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Man Myself Relationship Requirement Stupidity
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
Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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Bad Death Feeling Myself Time
You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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Old Teaching Trick Yourself
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
I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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Hate Myself People Rich
Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Acceptance Leaving Myself
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

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