Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
DOROTHY PARKERTime may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
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Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
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[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that’s much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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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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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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