Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
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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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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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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I’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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There’s life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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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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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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