The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
DOROTHY PARKERTake me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that’s much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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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 don’t mind anything that’s written about me, as long as it’s not true.
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
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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 love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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