I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I’m under the table/After four I’m under my host.
DOROTHY PARKERBut I don’t give up; I forget why not.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
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What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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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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The writer’s way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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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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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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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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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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