He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
DOROTHY PARKERIf 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.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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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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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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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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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.
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Writing well is the best revenge.
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If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.
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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
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Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie.
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I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I’m under the table/After four I’m under my host.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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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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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.
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