A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
DOROTHY PARKERIf you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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If I didn’t care for fun and such, I’d probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.
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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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If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
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That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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There’s life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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