If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
DOROTHY PARKERThat woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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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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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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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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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
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Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
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Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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