Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
DOROTHY PARKERQuick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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I don’t mind anything that’s written about me, as long as it’s not true.
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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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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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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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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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
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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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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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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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