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Quote from Dorothy Parker, Constant Reader

But I give you my word, in the entire book there is nothing that cannot be said aloud in mixed company. And there is, also, nothing that makes you a bit the wiser. I wonder–oh, what will you think of me–if those two statements do not verge upon the synonymous.

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The Portable Dorothy Parker

Quote from Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker

I won’t telephone him. I’ll never telephone him again as long as I live. He’ll rot in hell, before I’ll call him up. You don’t have to give me strength, God; I have it myself. If he wanted me, he could get me. He knows where I am. He knows I’m waiting here. He’s so sure of me, so sure. I wonder why they hate you, as soon as they are sure of you.

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Quote from Dorothy Parker, The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker

In youth, it was a way I had,To do my best to please.And change, with every passing ladTo suit his theories.But now I know the things I knowAnd do the things I do,And if you do not like me so,To hell, my love, with you.

Quote from Dorothy Parker

By the time you swear you’re his,Shivering and sighing.And he vows his passion is,Infinite, undying.Lady make note of this –One of you is lying.

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The Collected Dorothy Parker

Quote from Dorothy Parker, The Collected Dorothy Parker

I like to have a martini,Two at the very most.After three I’m under the table,after four I’m under my host.

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Quote from Dorothy Parker, You Might as Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker

It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard.

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Sunset Gun: Poems

Quote from Dorothy Parker, Sunset Gun: Poems

And if my heart be scarred and burned,The safer, I, for all I learned.

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Quote from Dorothy Parker, While Rome Burns

Brevity is the soul of lingerie.

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