Women and elephants never forget.
DOROTHY PARKERI was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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There’s life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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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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I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I’m under the table/After four I’m under my host.
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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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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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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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