The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
DOROTHY PARKERAll I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don’t catch horses going around looking like people, do you?
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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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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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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The 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?
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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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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