Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
DOROTHY PARKERI don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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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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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
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Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I’ll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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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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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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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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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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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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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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