Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
DOROTHY PARKERThat woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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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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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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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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Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
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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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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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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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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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I hate almost all rich people, but I think 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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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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