All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
DOROTHY PARKERHis voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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I’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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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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Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
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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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Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
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Writing well is the best revenge.
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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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I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
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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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