Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
DOROTHY PARKERSaid after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.
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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
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Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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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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There’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.
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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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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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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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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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