If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
DOROTHY PARKERThe definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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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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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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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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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!
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The only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
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The writer’s way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?
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If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
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What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
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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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That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
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