Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
DOROTHY PARKERA girl’s best friend is her mutter.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that’s much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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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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Women and elephants never forget.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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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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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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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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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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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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