The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
DOROTHY PARKERI 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.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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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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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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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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Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie.
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.
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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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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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