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There’s life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.

Dorothy Parker

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

Bad Food Growth Taste
They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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Quiet Storm
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
Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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Enough Jealous Satisfaction Wine
The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
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Atmosphere Best Children Home
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
Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Acceptance Leaving Myself
If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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Company Myself Talk Yourself
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
There’s life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
DOROTHY PARKER

Funny Life Study Theft Yourself
Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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Death Growth Rose Willing
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
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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Death Lying Marriage Passion Promise Time Yourself
I hate writing, I love having written.
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Hate Love Myself Writing
The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Food Forever People
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

There’s life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.

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There’s life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.

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