If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
DOROTHY PARKERThe best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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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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I don’t mind anything that’s written about me, as long as it’s not true.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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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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If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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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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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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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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