[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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More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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By the time you swear you’re his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this — One of you is lying.
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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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