A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
DOROTHY PARKERSaid after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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If I didn’t care for fun and such, I’d probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.
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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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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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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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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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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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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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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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It was written without fear and without research.
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Writing well is the best revenge.
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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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