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• Nothing in life is fun for the whole family. There are no massage parlors with ice cream and free jewelry.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, Ice Cream, Massage

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• When the commission finds that a pig has entered the parlor, the exercise of its regulatory power does not depend on proof the pig is obscene.

  John Paul Stevens

  Exercise, Pigs, Justice

  "Stevens carved liberal legacy on high court". www.seattletimes.com. April 10, 2010.

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• Some primal termite knocked on wood.
  And tasted it, and found it good.
  And that is why your Cousin May
  Fell through the parlor floor today.

  Ogden Nash

  Cousin, Science, May

  Ogden Nash (1945). “The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash”, New York : Modern Library

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• But always and sometimes questioning the old modes
  And the new wondering, the poem, growing up through the floor,
  Standing tall in tubers, invading and smashing the ritual
  Parlor, demands to be met on its own terms now,
  Now that the preliminary negotiations are at last over.

  John Ashbery

  Life, Growing Up, Demand

  John Ashbery (1985). “A Wave: Poems”, p.79, Ardent Media

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• One may enter the literary parlor via just about any door, be it the prison door, the madhouse door, or the brothel door. There is but one door one may not enter it through, which is the child room door. The critics will never forgive you such. The great Rudyard Kipling is one of a number of people to have suffered from this. I keep wondering to myself what this peculiar contempt towards anything related to childhood is all about.

  Michael Ende

  Children, Doors, Numbers

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• I was always told to be a cook in the kitchen, a lady in the parlor and a wh--e in the bedroom.

  Melissa Gorga

  Kitchen, Bedroom, Cooks

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• The owner of a Florida massage parlor has been arrested by police. "There weren't any serious violations," said the officers, "she just rubbed us the wrong way."

  George Carlin

  Humorous, Florida, Police

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• A piano store looks like a funeral parlor for music.

  Ramon Gomez de la Serna

  Music, Piano, Funeral

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• Yes, when I get big and have my own home, no plush chairs and lace curtains for me. And no rubber plants. I'll have a desk like this in my parlor and white walls and a clean green blotter every Saturday night and a row of shining yellow pencils always sharpened for writing and a golden-brown bowl with a flower or some leaves or berries always in it and books . . . books . . . books. . . .

  Betty Smith

  Wall, Flower, Book

  Betty Smith (2009). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• I am not a nurse escorting six lunatics to the ice cream parlor.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Ice Cream, Nurse, Six

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.51, Vintage

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• Sometimes they would sit in the parlor together, both reading – in entirely separate worlds, to be sure, but joined somehow. When this happened, other people in the family couldn't bring themselves to disturb them. All that could be heard in the parlor was the sound of pages, turning.

  Alice Hoffman

  Reading, Pages Turning, People

  Alice Hoffman (2005). “Blackbird House”, p.97, Alice Hoffman

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• Instead, he sat in the parlor of his family's Fifth Avenue mansion, growing older by the minute just like everybody else.

  Anna Godbersen

  Growing, Fifth Avenue, Minutes

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• There was this judgmental sense of what was good and what was bad in my father's words. You couldn't necessarily shut the people out who were not considered good. But on the other hand, as children we were told, you don't do those things, which means that you don't really mix with that crowd as much. You don't go to town on Saturday night and hang out and go to the beer parlors. Even though it was a dry county, there was plenty of moonshine and beer and liquor being brought in from other counties.

  David C. Driskell

  Children, Father, Mean

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Spirit, Bedroom, Left

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.86, University of Illinois Press

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• I do want to get married. It's a nice idea. Though I think husbands are like tattoos--you should wait until you come across something you want on your body for the rest of your life instead of just wandering into a tattoo parlor on some idle Sunday and saying, 'I feel like I should have one of these suckers by now. I'll take a thorny rose and a "MOM" anchor, please. No, not that one--the big one.

  Sloane Crosley

  Tattoo, Mom, Husband

  Sloane Crosley (2008). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.120, Penguin

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• Really, doesn´t everything make sense? There are, of course, things from which we more or less recover, although some of them are too harsh even for saints. But that is no reason to accuse God. Even if there are reasons to doubt him, the fact that he did not arrange the world like a well-ordered parlor is not one of them. It speaks rather in his favor. This used to be much better understood.

  Ernst Junger

  Doubt, Saint, World

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• If you focus on the humanity of your stories, your characters, then the horror will be stronger, scarier. Without the humanity, the horror becomes nothing more than a tawdry parlor trick. All flash and no magic, and worst of all, no heart.

  Don Roff

  Character, Writing, Heart

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• They're selling postcards of the hanging They're painting the passports brown The beauty parlor is filled with sailors The circus is in town Here comes the blind commissioner They've got him in a trance One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker The other is in his pants And the riot squad they're restless They need somewhere to go As Lady and I look out tonight From Desolation Row.

  Bob Dylan

  Hands, Squad, Needs

  Song: Desolation Row, Album: Highway 61 Revisited, 1965

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• In every community there is a class of people profoundly dangerous to the rest. I don't mean the criminals. For them we have punitive sanctions. I mean the leaders. Invariably the most dangerous people seek the power. While in the parlors of indignation the right-thinking citizen brings his heart to a boil. (p. 51)

  Saul Bellow

  Heart, Mean, Thinking

  Saul Bellow (1976). “Herzog”, Viking Adult

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• I see a kind of thirst in her expression, the same one I saw when she told me about her brother in the back room of the tattoo parlor. Before the attack simulation I might have called it a thirst for justice, or even revenge, but now I am able to identify it as a thirst for blood. And even as it frightens me, I understand it. Which should probably frighten me even more.

  Veronica Roth

  Tattoo, Brother, Revenge

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• Many male habitues of massage parlors, like Talese, did not like solitary masturbation; in the parlance of the younger generation, it was a "downer." And yet to be masturbated by an appealing masseuse, to be in the physical presence of a woman with whom there was some communication and understanding, if not love, was gratifying and fun.

  Gay Talese

  Love, Fun, Communication

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• I firmly believe in and support everyone's right to freedom of artistic expression. STEEL MAGNOLIAS is my artistic expression, and it is my right to say that its female characters be portrayed by women. The concept of a play set in a beauty parlor where men portray women is a terrific idea. If that is someone's artistic expression, I encourage them to write their own play as soon as possible.

  Robert Harling

  Believe, Writing, Character

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• And tell him to paint me a sign, with-no suicides permitted here, and no smloing in the parlor; might as well kill both birds at once.

  Herman Melville

  Suicide, Bird, Might

  Herman Melville (2016). “Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale”, p.96, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Most people get an appointment at a beauty parlor... I was committed!

  Phyllis Diller

  Inspirational, People, Committed

  Phyllis Diller (2006). “Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse: My Life in Comedy”, p.53, Penguin

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• When other people first became aware of the cow, they expressed concern and anxiety. They suggested strategies for getting the animal out of Molly's parlor: remedies and doctors and procedures, some mainstream and some New Age. They related anecdotes of friends who had removed their own cows in one way or another. But after a while they had exhausted their suggestions. Then they usually began to pretend that the cow wasn't there, and they preferred for Molly to go along with the pretense.

  Alison Lurie

  Animal, Doctors, People

  Alison Lurie (2010). “The Last Resort”, p.48, Random House

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