The only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
DOROTHY PARKERThree be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.
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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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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I’ll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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The Monte Carlo casino refused to admit me until I was properly dressed so I went and found my stockings, and then came back and lost my shirt.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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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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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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