Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
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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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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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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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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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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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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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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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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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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I don’t mind anything that’s written about me, as long as it’s not true.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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