Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
DOROTHY PARKERThe definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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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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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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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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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I’ll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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