This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
DOROTHY PARKERThe best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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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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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of 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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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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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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I hate writing, I love having written.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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