Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
DOROTHY PARKERThe 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?
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
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By the time you swear you’re his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this — One of you is lying.
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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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It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.
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It was written without fear and without research.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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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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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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