Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
DOROTHY PARKERMaybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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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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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for 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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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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It was written without fear and without research.
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
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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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