If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
DOROTHY PARKERWhat 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.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
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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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I’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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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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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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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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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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I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.
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A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
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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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