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Her big heart did not, as is so sadly often the case, inhabit a big bosom. (Dorothy Parker)
London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it. View quote
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And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word. View quote
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I find her anecdotes more efficacious than sheep-counting, rain on a tin roof, or alanol tablets.... you will find me and Morpheus, off in a corner, necking. View quote
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Authors and actors and artists and such - Never know nothing, and never know much. View quote
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There was nothing separate about her days. Like drops on the window-pane, they ran together and trickled away. View quote
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Trapped like a trap in a trap. View quote
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I wish, I wish I were a poisonous bacterium. View quote
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Now to me, Edith looks like something that would eat her young. View quote
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There was a reason for the cost of those perfectly plain black dresses. View quote
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I'm of the glamorous ladies At whose beckoning history shook. But you are a man, and see only my pan, So I stay at home with a book. (Dorothy Parker)
I know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sake of a great work. But this is no great work, you see. View quote
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Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves. View quote
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I require three things in a man: he must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid. View quote
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned. View quote
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It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard. View quote
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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them. View quote
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Two things made The Dice of the Gods, another play about drugs, seem much better than it had any real right to seem. One was that Morphia had come first, and once you had seen Morphia, nothing seemd so very terrible to you. p. 375. View quote
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Too fucking busy, and vice versa. View quote
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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. View quote
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What fresh hell is this? (Dorothy Parker)
The sun's gone dim, and the moon's gone black. For I loved him, and he didn't love back. View quote
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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne. View quote
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I'm not a writer with a drinking problem, I'm a drinker with a writing problem. View quote
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If I had a shiny gun I could have a world of fun Speeding bullets through the brains Of the folks that cause me pains :) View quote
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