Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
DOROTHY PARKERThis is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn’t touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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I’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money.
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You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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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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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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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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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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