I’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money.
DOROTHY PARKERCreativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
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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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I don’t mind anything that’s written about me, as long as it’s not true.
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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
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