The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
DOROTHY PARKERWriting well is the best revenge.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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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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By the time you swear you’re his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this — One of you is lying.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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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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Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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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 best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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