Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
DOROTHY PARKERThere is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I’ll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!
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I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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I’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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