Women and elephants never forget.
DOROTHY PARKERI require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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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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Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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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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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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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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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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If 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.
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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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