If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
DOROTHY PARKERI’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.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
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It was written without fear and without research.
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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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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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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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
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