You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
DOROTHY PARKERIf 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.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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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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Writing well is the best revenge.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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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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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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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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It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.
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You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
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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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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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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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I hate writing, I love having written.
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