Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
DOROTHY PARKERIf you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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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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It was written without fear and without research.
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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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Writing well is the best revenge.
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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
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