“This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it."
[Women Know Everything!]”
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[Women Know Everything!]”
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“That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.”
― While Rome Burns
― While Rome Burns
“What fresh hell is this?”
― The Portable Dorothy Parker
― The Portable Dorothy Parker
“In youth, it was a way I had,
To do my best to please.
And change, with every passing lad
To suit his theories.
But now I know the things I know
And do the things I do,
And if you do not like me so,
To hell, my love, with you.”
― The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker
To do my best to please.
And change, with every passing lad
To suit his theories.
But now I know the things I know
And do the things I do,
And if you do not like me so,
To hell, my love, with you.”
― The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker
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