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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.

Dorothy Parker

Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
DOROTHY PARKER

Acceptance Leaving Myself
The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
DOROTHY PARKER

Atmosphere Best Children Home
The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
DOROTHY PARKER

Avoid Best Drink Stay Way
Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
DOROTHY PARKER

Identity Normal Popular
If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
DOROTHY PARKER

Appearance Fashion Funny Love Sex
Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
DOROTHY PARKER

Change Funny Life Myself Oneself Sex Story
Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
DOROTHY PARKER

Act Quick
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.
DOROTHY PARKER

Friendship Mom Pregnant Yourself
You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
DOROTHY PARKER

Action Responsibility Yourself
It was written without fear and without research.
DOROTHY PARKER

Fear Research Writing
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.
DOROTHY PARKER

Entertainment Fun Goodness Myself
Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
DOROTHY PARKER

City Place Search
Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
DOROTHY PARKER

Appearance Girl Man Wear
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.
DOROTHY PARKER

Best Books Hands Myself Run
There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
DOROTHY PARKER

Distance Hell Simplicity Sports Truth Word
People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
DOROTHY PARKER

Death People Young

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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