Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
DOROTHY PARKERThe definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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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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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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I’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money.
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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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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don’t catch horses going around looking like people, do you?
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Women and elephants never forget.
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
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Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
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Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
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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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