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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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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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?
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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