Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
DOROTHY PARKERWriting is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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It was written without fear and without research.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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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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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
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This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn’t touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
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I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I’m under the table/After four I’m under my host.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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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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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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If I didn’t care for fun and such, I’d probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.
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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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