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Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common.
Civilization is coming to an end, you understand.
It was written without fear and without research.
ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
[Suggesting an epitaph for herself:] This is on me.
Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
Where's the man could ease a heart Like a satin gown?
It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes.
Of Orson Welles: It's like meeting God without dying.
Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
If you don't have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
Three highballs, and I think I'm St. Francis of Assisi.
Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.
All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
[Requesting her epitaph to read this way:] Excuse my dust.
You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.
Don't feel bad when I die; I've been dead for a long time.
If I had any decency, I'd be dead. Most of my friends are.
I was the toast of two continents: Greenland and Australia.
Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn.
If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
My first love was Cinderella, but she ran off with another man.
Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
Now to me, Edith looks like something that would eat her young.
A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
And I'll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
She was pleased to have him come and never sorry to see him go.
I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
[On hearing that President Coolidge was dead:] How can you tell?
Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
She will never win him, whose words had shown she feared to lose.
I shudder at the thought of men.... I'm due to fall in love again
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
This living, this living, this living Was never a project of mine.
Gratitude - the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world.
They say of me, and so they should, It's doubtful if I come to good.
Friends come and go but I wouldn't have thought you'd be one of them
Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart.
What writes worse than a Theodore Dreiser? ... Two Theodore Dreisers.