Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
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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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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
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There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
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There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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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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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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The Monte Carlo casino refused to admit me until I was properly dressed so I went and found my stockings, and then came back and lost my shirt.
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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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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