This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
DOROTHY PARKERA girl’s best friend is her mutter.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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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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By the time you swear you’re his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this — One of you is lying.
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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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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Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
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Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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