Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
DOROTHY PARKERGenius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
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Writing well is the best revenge.
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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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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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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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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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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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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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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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
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Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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