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• Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays.
  Clutch it, and it darts away. -- Dorothy Parke...
• Trapped, like a trap in a trap. -- Dorothy Parke
• Every love's the love before In a duller dress. -- Dorothy Parker, "Summary
• Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.
  -- Dorothy Parker, "Not So Deep as a Well...
• Brevity is the soul of lingerie. -- Dorothy Parke
• Ferrets: Curious about everything and move like quicksilver.
• Where's the man could ease a heart Like a satin gown? -- Dorothy Parker, "The Satin Dre
• 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...
• My soul is crushed, my spirit sore I do not like me anymore, I cavil, quarrel, grumble, grouse, I ponder on the narrow house I shudder at the thought of men I'm due to fall in love again.
  -- Dorothy Parker, "Enough Rope...