All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don’t catch horses going around looking like people, do you?
DOROTHY PARKERCreativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Writing well is the best revenge.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.
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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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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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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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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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