The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
DOROTHY PARKERThis 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.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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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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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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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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If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
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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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Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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I’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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