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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.

Dorothy Parker

A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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Fight Liberty Man Room Start
Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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Creativity Discipline Eyes Mindset Wild
Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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Identity Normal Popular
Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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Beyond Live Wild
If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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Appearance Fashion Funny Love Sex
And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Himself Run Stay
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
And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
DOROTHY PARKER

Himself Run Stay
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
The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Food Forever People
I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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Change Myself Word Writing
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
[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
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
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
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Fingers Hands Leaving Love Wisdom
You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
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Action Responsibility Yourself
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
And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Himself Run Stay
Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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Goodness Hide Safety Treasure Woman
Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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Alcohol Quick Vice
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
Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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Art Seat Writing
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
If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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Appearance Clothes Fashion Party Yourself
The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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Cheating Hollywood Reality
The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
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Education Learning Yourself
And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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Burn Heart Myself Safety Scars

Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.

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