This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
DOROTHY PARKERIt 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.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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It was written without fear and without research.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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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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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
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If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
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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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A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
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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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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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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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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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