Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
DOROTHY PARKERTime may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
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Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
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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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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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It was written without fear and without research.
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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