All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
DOROTHY PARKERThat woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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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.
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I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.
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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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I’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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It was written without fear and without research.
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