All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
DOROTHY PARKERThe definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
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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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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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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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If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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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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The writer’s way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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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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I don’t mind anything that’s written about me, as long as it’s not true.
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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 can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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