George Sand

What time the gifted lady took
Away from paper, pen, and book,
She spent in amorous dalliance
(They do those things so well in France.)

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George Sand

What time the gifted lady took
Away from paper, pen, and book,
She spent in amorous dalliance
(They do those things so well in France.)

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Coda

There's little in taking or giving
There's little in water or wine;
This living, this living, this living
Was never a project of mine.

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Summary

Every love's the love before
In a duller dress.
That's the measure of my lore -
Here's my bitterness:
Would I knew a little more,
Or very much less!

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Oh, I said it all right. You know how it is. A joke. When people expect you to say things, you say things. Isn't that the way it is?

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"Whatever is, is good" - your gracious creed.
You wear your joy of living like a crown.
Love lights your simplest gift of all - a friend.
Your shining loyalty unflecked by doubt
You ask but leave to follow to the end
(Couldn't you wait until I took you out?)

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naming your kid parker is just a guy who parks. fight me

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On returning by boat from Spain:
"The crossing was so rough the only thing I could keep on my stomach was the First Mate."

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On her pregnancy:
"It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard."

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Charles Dickens

Who call him spurious and shoddy
Shall do it o'er my lifeless body.
I heartily invite such birds
To come outside and say those words!

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To Sam Goldwyn, who asked her at dinner: "Do you really say all those things which the papers report that you say?"
"Do you?"

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Of her second husband:
"Oh, don't worry about Alan. Alan will always land on somebody's feet."

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As I was saying to the landlord only this morning, "You can't have everything."

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Hemmingway avoids New York, for he has the most valuable asset an artist can possess - the fear of what he knows is bad for him.

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To Sam Goldwyn, who asked her at dinner: "Do you really say all those things which the papers report that you say?"
"Do you?"

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To Sam Goldwyn, who asked her at dinner: "Do you really say all those things which the papers report that you say?"
"Do you?"

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On being asked if she was going to join Alcoholics Anonymous :
"Certainly not. They'd want me to stop now."

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Love is for unlucky folk,
Love is but a curse.
Once there was a heart I broke:
And that, I think, is worse.

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Of a play by Channing Pollock:
"The House Beautiful" is The Play Lousy.

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When the New Yorker editor, Harold Ross, asked her why she hadn't been to the office during the week to write her usual piece:
"Someone was using the pencil."

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