A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
DOROTHY PARKERI hate writing, I love having written.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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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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There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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There’s life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
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Writing well is the best revenge.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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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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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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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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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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