Ring Lardner Quotes

"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 too much of a temptation to the editor."
-Ring Lardner in Writing quotes.

"He give her a look that you could of poured on a waffle."
-Ring Lardner

"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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"This story is slightly immoral, but so, I guess, are stories based on truth."
-Ring Lardner in Truth quotes.

"They (wives) are people who think when the telephone bell rings, it is against the law not to answer it."
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"No one, ever, wrote anything as well even after one drink as he would have done without it."
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"They gave each other a smile with a future in it."
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"Shut up he explained."
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