I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
DOROTHY PARKERSaid after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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The writer’s way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?
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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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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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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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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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