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.
DOROTHY PARKERThe writer’s way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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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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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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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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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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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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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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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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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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