The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
DOROTHY PARKERI hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
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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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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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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 don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.
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It was written without fear and without research.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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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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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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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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If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
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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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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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If I didn’t care for fun and such, I’d probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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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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