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“Fat, broke, and unmarried,” she declared with pride, for she knew she had transcended the unwritten rules.”

Women Women S Fiction

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“She had seen the faces of shattered dreams, the zippy Ziegfeld girls, the doll-faced divorcées, the wellborn wives in opulent ivory towers, knocked down and knocked right out.”

Women Nostalgia The Past 1920s

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“It was a refuge by the sea, yet she had no interest in the moving tide or the solace it tendered. The haunting wail of her own cry was unfamiliar to her ear, rising from uncharted depths within her. Her heart felt broken and it could not be mended. Her legs felt weak and they could not be strengthened. She lay under the bedcovers and wept, and turned her cheek to rest on the pillow.”

Grief Death Of A Loved One

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“Men who once were titans of business now were unrecognizable to their friends, friends that found refuge at their homes in Newport and the Gold Coast, places with vodka and rare art and pretty dresses.”

Nostalgia The Past Great Depression 1920s

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“In the empty halls of the castle now abandoned and silenced by time, they waltzed cheek to cheek over the ancient floor of dust with unknown stories buried deep in the soil below.”

Nostalgia The Past Provence

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“The rest of us have to play along with God’s little game of Russian roulette, His eternal lesson to live it up while you can. And far be it for me to turn away from God—let’s get a drink.”

Humor 1920s Jazz Age

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“Someone has to unbutton the stuffed shirts of the beau monde.”

1920s Jazz Age Cafe Society

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“Oh good, the Algonquin Twit isn’t here.”

1920s Cafe Society Dorothy Parker

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“By the end of the weekend I want to stab him with his dessert fork, which is always lodged in a wedge of chocolate cake or his mouth.”

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“What did your husband do to make you leave him?” “He breathed.”

Humor Marriage Divorce

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