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.
DOROTHY PARKERThis is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie.
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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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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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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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The Monte Carlo casino refused to admit me until I was properly dressed so I went and found my stockings, and then came back and lost my shirt.
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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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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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