The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
DOROTHY PARKERNever throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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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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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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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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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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The 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?
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie.
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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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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 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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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.
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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
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