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Alison Lurie has 11 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it…
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There's a rule, I think. You get what you want in life, but not your second choice too.
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The great subversive works of children's literature suggest that there are other views of human life besides those of the shopping mall…
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As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.
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Real literature, like travel, is always a surprise.
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Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world
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When other people first became aware of the cow, they expressed concern and anxiety. They suggested strategies for getting the animal out…
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Grosvenor and Burke suggest that continually, though silently, a school building tells students who they are and how they should think about…
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If nothing will finally survive of life besides what artists report of it, we have no right to report what we know…
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There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell…
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We can lie in the language of dress or try to tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it…
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For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver.
— George Ade
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When I came to New York and I opened the window of the thirty-fifth-floor apartment, there's light pollution and fog, and I…
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Only institutions that go about the old-fashioned business of taking in deposits from customer A and lending them out to customer B…
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See how special you are? I serve you coffee in the parlor.
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Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Let there be dancing in the streets, drinking in the saloons, and necking in the parlor.
— Groucho Marx
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The owner of a Florida massage parlor has been arrested by police. "There weren't any serious violations," said the officers, "she just…
— George Carlin
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PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by pressing the keys of the machine and the…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in its…
— Betty Smith
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I went to a massage parlor, it was self service.
— Rodney Dangerfield
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The only thing they can get me for is running a funeral parlor without a license.
— John Wayne
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I have Bob Dylan lyrics on my ribs. I'm a diehard Dylan fan, and my dad and I joke that if I…
— Carly Chaikin
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