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.
DOROTHY PARKERThey sicken of the calm who know the storm.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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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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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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