Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
DOROTHY PARKERCreativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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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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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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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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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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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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The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
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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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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
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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 can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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