Women and elephants never forget.
DOROTHY PARKERTime may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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Writing well is the best revenge.
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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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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
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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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There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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