Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
DOROTHY PARKERHis voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
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I’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money.
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Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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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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Writing well is the best revenge.
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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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There’s life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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