If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
DOROTHY PARKERAnd I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
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There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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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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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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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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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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If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
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This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn’t touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
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I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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