But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
DOROTHY PARKERAnd I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Women and elephants never forget.
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!
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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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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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Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
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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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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
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I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don’t catch horses going around looking like people, do you?
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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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.
DOROTHY PARKER







