I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.
DOROTHY PARKERIf love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that’s much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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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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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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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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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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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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I don’t mind anything that’s written about me, as long as it’s not true.
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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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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
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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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