Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
DOROTHY PARKERThe definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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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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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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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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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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It was written without fear and without research.
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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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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
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Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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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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