Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
DOROTHY PARKERThe best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
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There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
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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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I’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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The only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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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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This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn’t touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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