But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
DOROTHY PARKEROf course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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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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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn’t touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
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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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I’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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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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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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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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It was written without fear and without research.
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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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