Quotes by Ring Lardner

A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big...

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This story is slightly immoral, but so, I guess, are stories based on truth

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No one, ever, wrote anything as well even after one drink as he would have...

#Drink

They gave each other a smile with a future in it.

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The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game...

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The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.

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I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a...

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He looked at me as if I were a side dish he hadn't ordered.

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An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve.

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A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big...

#Ring Lardner