In the words of Dorothy Parker:
Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night.
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.
Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
I'm not a writer with a drinking problem, I'm a drinker with a writing problem.
If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
Her big heart did not, as is so sadly often the case, inhabit a big bosom.
Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
If I didn't care for fun and such, I'd probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.
I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.
I don't mind anything that's written about me, as long as it's not true.
The sun's gone dim, and the moon's gone black. For I loved him, and he didn't love back.
Her mind lives tidily, apart from cold and noise and pain. And bolts the door against her heart, out wailing in the rain.
Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
The Monte Carlo casino refused to admit me until I was properly dressed so I went and found my stockings, and then came back and lost my shirt.
Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, a medley of extemporanea, And love is a thing that can never go wrong, and I am Marie of Romania.
This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.
I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.
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