You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
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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Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
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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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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
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The writer’s way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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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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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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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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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
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