All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
DOROTHY PARKERQuick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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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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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
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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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If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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