And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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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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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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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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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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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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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I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I’m under the table/After four I’m under my host.
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.
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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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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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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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