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 PARKERThey tire of quiet, that have known the storm
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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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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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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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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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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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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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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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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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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