If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
DOROTHY PARKERWriting is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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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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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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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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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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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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