Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
DOROTHY PARKERI know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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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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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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Writing well is the best revenge.
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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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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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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