Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
DOROTHY PARKERI was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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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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There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
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Writing well is the best revenge.
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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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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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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
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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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