If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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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The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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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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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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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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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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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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