A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
DOROTHY PARKERNever throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I’m under the table/After four I’m under my host.
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don’t catch horses going around looking like people, do you?
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It was written without fear and without research.
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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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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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