Ring Lardner Quotes

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• They gave each other a smile with a future in it.
• He looked at me as if I were a side dish he hadn't ordered.
• How can you write if you can't cry?
• Shut up,' he explained.
• Some like them hot,some like them cold. Some like them when they're not to darn old Some like them fat,some like them lean. Some like…
• Walter Mayer was a hero at a Salvation Army home fire in Cincinnati.
• No one, ever, wrote anything as well even after one drink as he would have done with out it.
• An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve.
• A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is…
• This story is slightly immoral, but so, I guess, are stories based on truth
• No one, ever, wrote anything as well even after one drink as he would have done without it.
• I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant.
• The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.
• The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do.

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