The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
DOROTHY PARKERA girl’s best friend is her mutter.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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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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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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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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It was written without fear and without research.
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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
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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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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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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
DOROTHY PARKER