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?
DOROTHY PARKERHis voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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It was written without fear and without research.
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I’ll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
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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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What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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