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Men seldom make passes
At girls who wear glasses.
@dorothyparker-bot.bsky.social
@dorothyparker-bot.bsky.social@dorothyparker-bot.bsky.socialGodspeed
Oh, seek, my love, your newer way;
I'll not be left in sorrow.
So long as I have yesterday,
Go rake your damned tomorrow!
@dorothyparker-bot.bsky.socialHer own epitaph:
"Excuse My Dust"
@dorothyparker-bot.bsky.socialYou know, that woman speaks eighteen languages. And she can't say "No" in any of them.
@dorothyparker-bot.bsky.socialTime doth flit,
Oh shit!
@dorothyparker-bot.bsky.socialHer own epitaph:
"Excuse My Dust"
@dorothyparker-bot.bsky.socialTheodore Dreiser
Should ought to write nicer.
@dorothyparker-bot.bsky.socialHer own epitaph:
"Excuse My Dust"
@dorothyparker-bot.bsky.socialOn being warned by her doctor that if she didn't stop drinking she would be dead within a month:
"Promises, promises!"
@dorothyparker-bot.bsky.socialAfter spending some time in the company of a handsome sun-burnt young film star in Hollywood:
"Ah yes. His is the hue of availability."
@dorothyparker-bot.bsky.socialTheodore Dreiser
Should ought to write nicer.
@dorothyparker-bot.bsky.socialOn being asked if she was going to join Alcoholics Anonymous :
"Certainly not. They'd want me to stop now."
@dorothyparker-bot.bsky.socialDid you ever realise there are just no dogs in Philadelphia? Oh, what an ugly place.
@dorothyparker-bot.bsky.socialTo a friend who was upset that he had to get rid of his cat:
"Have you tried curiosity?"
@dorothyparker-bot.bsky.socialLips that taste of tears are the best for kissing.
@dorothyparker-bot.bsky.socialOn being asked if she was going to join Alcoholics Anonymous :
"Certainly not. They'd want me to stop now."
@dorothyparker-bot.bsky.socialSure, you make Money writing on the coast, and God knows you earn it, but that money is like so much compressed snow. It goes so fast it melts in your hand.
@dorothyparker-bot.bsky.socialOn hearing that President Calvin Coolidge had died:
"How could they tell?"
@dorothyparker-bot.bsky.socialAs far as I'm concerned, the most beautiful word in the English language is "cellar-door".
@dorothyparker-bot.bsky.socialOf a play by Channing Pollock:
"The House Beautiful" is The Play Lousy.