The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
DOROTHY PARKER
Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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I’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money.
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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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Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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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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It was written without fear and without research.
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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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Writing well is the best revenge.
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You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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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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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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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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