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.
DOROTHY PARKERThat woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I’ll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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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 like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.
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