Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
DOROTHY PARKERBut I don’t give up; I forget why not.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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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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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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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.
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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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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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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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