This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
DOROTHY PARKER[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
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[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that’s much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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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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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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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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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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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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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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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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