Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
DOROTHY PARKERThere’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.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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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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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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A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
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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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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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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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Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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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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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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