If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
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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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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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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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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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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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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I’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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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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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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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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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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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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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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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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I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.
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