Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
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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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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Writing well is the best revenge.
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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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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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I 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.
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