Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!
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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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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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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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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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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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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I’ll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
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