Dorothy Parker Short Quotes

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Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.

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Scratch an actor and you'll find an actress.

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Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.

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His voice was intimate as the rustle of sheets...

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Men seldom make passes At girls who wear glasses.

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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.

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She had spent the golden time in grudging it going.

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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.

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Anyone can do that—the stunt lies in not doing it.

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It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes.

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Where's the man could ease a heart
Like a satin gown?

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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.

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You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.

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Byron and Shelley and Keats
Were a trio of lyrical treats.

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I was the toast of two continents: Greenland and Australia.

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Lips that taste of tears, they say
Are the best for kissing.

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Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.

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He's a writer for the ages — for the ages of four to eight.

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Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn....

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Now to me, Edith looks like something that would eat her young.

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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.

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And I'll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.

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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.

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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I'd be darling at it.

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She will never win him, whose words had shown she feared to lose.

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I shudder at the thought of men.... I'm due to fall in love again

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This living, this living, this living Was never a project of mine.

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What writes worse than a Theodore Dreiser?... Two Theodore Dreisers.

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Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart.

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And I'll stay away from Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.

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