Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
DOROTHY PARKERAnd I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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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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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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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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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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