There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
DOROTHY PARKERAnd I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie.
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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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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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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.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
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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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The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
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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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