Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
DOROTHY PARKERIf all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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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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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 you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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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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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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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 don’t mind anything that’s written about me, as long as it’s not true.
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Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
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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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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn’t touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
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