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Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!

Dorothy Parker

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.
DOROTHY PARKER

Best Books Hands Myself Run
Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
DOROTHY PARKER

Death God
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
DOROTHY PARKER

Better Death Goodness Herself Judgement
Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
DOROTHY PARKER

Genius Material Talent Writing
What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
DOROTHY PARKER

Beautiful Clean Deep Order Skin Ugly
People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
DOROTHY PARKER

Death People Young
Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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Death Growth Rose Willing
They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
DOROTHY PARKER

Quiet Storm
Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
DOROTHY PARKER

Acceptance Leaving Myself
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.
DOROTHY PARKER

Entertainment Fun Goodness Myself
If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
DOROTHY PARKER

Feeling Hurt Necessary Yourself
Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
DOROTHY PARKER

Myself Tone View Voice
You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
DOROTHY PARKER

Action Responsibility Yourself
Women and elephants never forget.
DOROTHY PARKER

Animal Forget Funny Woman
But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
DOROTHY PARKER

Forget Give Up Inspirational Myself One Liner
Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
DOROTHY PARKER

Identity Literature Study Yourself

Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!

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