Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
DOROTHY PARKERThat would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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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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[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that’s much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
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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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The only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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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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Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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