All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
DOROTHY PARKERI’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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It was written without fear and without research.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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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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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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The only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
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There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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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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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
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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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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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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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