Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
DOROTHY PARKER
If 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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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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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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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
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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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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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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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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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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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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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I’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money.
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