All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
DOROTHY PARKERAnd I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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I don’t mind anything that’s written about me, as long as it’s not true.
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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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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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If I didn’t care for fun and such, I’d probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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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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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.
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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
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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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