Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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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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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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I 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.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.
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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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