Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I’ll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!
DOROTHY PARKERThe best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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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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Women and elephants never forget.
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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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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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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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If I didn’t care for fun and such, I’d probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.
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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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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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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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If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
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