Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
DOROTHY PARKERLove is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Writing well is the best revenge.
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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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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You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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There’s life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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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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I’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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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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Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
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