The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
DOROTHY PARKERThe only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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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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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 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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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
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Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
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If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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There’s life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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