A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
DOROTHY PARKERThe cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don’t catch horses going around looking like people, do you?
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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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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Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
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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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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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By the time you swear you’re his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this — One of you is lying.
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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