Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
DOROTHY PARKERThey tire of quiet, that have known the storm
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
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I’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money.
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Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!
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All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don’t catch horses going around looking like people, do you?
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That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
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If I didn’t care for fun and such, I’d probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.
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It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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It was written without fear and without research.
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Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I’ll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!
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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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