Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
DOROTHY PARKERAnd I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie.
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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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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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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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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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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If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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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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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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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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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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