The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
DOROTHY PARKERThe best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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By the time you swear you’re his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this — One of you is lying.
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The writer’s way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?
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I’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money.
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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that’s much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
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If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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