His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
DOROTHY PARKERIf you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I’ll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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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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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie.
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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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[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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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
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