And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
DOROTHY PARKERA liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn’t touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
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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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Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
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It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.
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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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It was written without fear and without research.
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The Monte Carlo casino refused to admit me until I was properly dressed so I went and found my stockings, and then came back and lost my shirt.
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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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