A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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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Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.
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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 was written without fear and without research.
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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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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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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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All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don’t catch horses going around looking like people, do you?
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