If I didn’t care for fun and such, I’d probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.
DOROTHY PARKERIf love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
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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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The only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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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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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 was written without fear and without research.
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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
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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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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of 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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