What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
DOROTHY PARKERAll I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I’m under the table/After four I’m under my host.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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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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The only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
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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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Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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