Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
DOROTHY PARKERThat woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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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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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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The only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that’s much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
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