And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
DOROTHY PARKERI 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.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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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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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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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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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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Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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