Ring Lardner Quotes

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

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#2. Although he is a very poor fielder, he is a very poor hitter.

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

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

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#5. 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.

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#6. Mr. Fitzgerald is a novelist and Mrs. Fitzgerald is a novelty

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

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#8. 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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#9. An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve.

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

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#11. Are you lost, Daddy?" I asked tenderly. "Shut up," he explained.

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#12. No one, ever, wrote anything as well even after one drink as he would have done with out it.

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#13. Shut up,' he explained.

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#14. How can you write if you can't cry?

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#15. Walter Mayer was a hero at a Salvation Army home fire in Cincinnati.

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