They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
DOROTHY PARKERA liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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The Monte Carlo casino refused to admit me until I was properly dressed so I went and found my stockings, and then came back and lost my shirt.
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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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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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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