You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
DOROTHY PARKERI’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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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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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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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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A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
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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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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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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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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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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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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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