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4 Ring Lardner Quotes

Ring Lardner offers wry, cynical takes on writing, career and aging that will make you smile and sigh.

Ring Lardner quotes

  1. The whole world is about three drinks behind.

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

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  4. There isn't anything on earth as depressing as an old sportswriter.

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