There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
DOROTHY PARKERQuick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
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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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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that’s much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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If I didn’t care for fun and such, I’d probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.
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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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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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