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From Quotes by Dorothy Parker
- How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid I've lost the knack. I might try busting myself smartly over the temple with the night-light. I…
- My land is bare of chattering folk; / the clouds are low along the ridges, / and sweet's the air with curly smoke / from…
- Well, there are always those who cannot distinguish between glitter and glamour . . . the glamour of Isadora Duncan came from her great, torn,…
- I can't talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it's a horror to look back on. I can't…
- I fell into writing, I suppose, being one of those awful children who wrote verses. I went to a convent in New York-the Blessed Sacrament...…
- If I don't drive around the park, I'm pretty sure to make my mark. If I'm in bed each night by ten, I may get…
- I had been fed, in my youth, a lot of old wives' tales about the way men would instantly forsake a beautiful woman to flock…
- Mrs. Ewing was a short woman who accepted the obligation borne by so many short women to make up in vivacity what they lack in…
- Her mind lives tidily, apart from cold and noise and pain. And bolts the door against her heart, out wailing in the rain.
- She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.
- The ladies men admire, I've heard, Would shudder at a wicked word. Their candle gives a single light, They'd rather stay at home at night.…
- The plot is so tired that even this reviewer, who in infancy was let drop by a nurse with the result that she has ever…
- His books are exciting and powerful and — if I may filch the word from the booksy ones — pulsing.
- Accursed from their birth they be Who seek to find monogamy, Pursuing it from bed to bed— I think they would be better dead.
- I never see that prettiest thing- A cherry bough gone white with Spring- But what I think, "How gay 'twould be To hang me from…
- She (Katherine Hepburn) runs the gamut of emotions from A to B
- How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid I've lost the knack. I might try busting myself smartly over the temple with the nightlight. I…
- It has lately been drawn to your correspondent's attention that, at social gatherings, she is not the human magnet she would be. Indeed, it turns…
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