Ring Lardner Quotes

• ‘Babe’ Ruth and Old Jack Dempsey, Both Sultans of Swat, One hits where the other people are, The other where they’re not.

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• I have known what it was like to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant.

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• Are you lost daddy I arsked tenderly. Shut up he explained.

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• 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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• How can you write if you can’t cry?

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• He looked at me as if I were a side dish he hadn’t ordered.

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  Tags in Side, Looked

• The family you come from isn’t as important as the family you’re going to have.

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• 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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  Tags in Game, Think, Real, Something

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

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• They gave each other a smile with a future in it.

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• I’ve known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant.

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• An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve.

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Ring Lardner (12)

Birth:	6th March, 1885
Death:	25th September, 1933
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Journalist, Writer

About

Ringgold Wilmer Lardner was an American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical takes on the sports world, marriage, and the theatre.

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Births

• 1933 - Alden Nowlan
• 1913 - Witold Lutoslawski
• 1949 - Paul Nurse
• 1882 - Virginia Woolf
• 1874 - W. Somerset Maugham

Deaths

• 1640 - Robert Burton
• 1996 - Jonathan Larson
• 1999 - Sarah Louise Delany
• 1990 - Ava Gardner
• 1994 - Stephen Cole Kleene