The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
DOROTHY PARKERThe only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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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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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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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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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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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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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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