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  Clutch it, and it darts away. -- Dorothy Parke...
• Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.
  -- Dorothy Parker, "Not So Deep as a Well...
• 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...
• Age before beauty; and pearls before swine. -- Dorothy Parke
• Drink and dance and laugh and lie Love, the reeling midnight through For tomorrow we shall die!
  (But, alas, we never do.) -- Dorothy Parker, "The Flaw in Paganism...
• 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 Roumania. -- Dorothy Parke...
• COMMENT Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea
  And love is thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Roumania....