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Ring Lardner
American
Comedian
About the author
I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant.
Ring Lardner,
American
Comedian
#Right
They gave each other a smile with a future in it.
Ring Lardner,
American
Comedian
#Smile
#Future
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.
Ring Lardner,
American
Comedian
#Happiness
The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.
Ring Lardner,
American
Comedian
#Family
He looked at me as if I were a side dish he hadn't ordered.
Ring Lardner,
American
Comedian
An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve.
Ring Lardner,
American
Comedian
#Mistakes
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,
American
Comedian
#Writers
#Self
#Temptation
#Mistake
No one, ever, wrote anything as well even after one drink as he would have done with out it.
Ring Lardner,
American
Comedian