That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
DOROTHY PARKERAnd I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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There’s life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
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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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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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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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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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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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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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