The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
DOROTHY PARKERIf all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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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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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
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If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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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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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
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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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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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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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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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