This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
DOROTHY PARKEROf Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.
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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I’m under the table/After four I’m under my host.
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