But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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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 like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I’m under the table/After four I’m under my host.
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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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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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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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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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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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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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