Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
DOROTHY PARKERDon’t look at me in that tone of voice.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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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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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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By the time you swear you’re his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this — One of you is lying.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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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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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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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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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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There’s life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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