Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
DOROTHY PARKERAnd I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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The only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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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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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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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 hate almost all rich people, but I think 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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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
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There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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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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