I don’t mind anything that’s written about me, as long as it’s not true.
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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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
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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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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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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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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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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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