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.
DOROTHY PARKERThe only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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Writing well is the best revenge.
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Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.
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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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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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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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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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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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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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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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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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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
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