Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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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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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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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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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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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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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I’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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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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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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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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The Monte Carlo casino refused to admit me until I was properly dressed so I went and found my stockings, and then came back and lost my shirt.
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