The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
DOROTHY PARKERWriting is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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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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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
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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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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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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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Women and elephants never forget.
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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It was written without fear and without research.
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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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Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.
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I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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