Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
DOROTHY PARKERIf love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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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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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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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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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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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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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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