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Writing well is the best revenge.

Dorothy Parker

And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
DOROTHY PARKER

Himself Run Stay
That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
DOROTHY PARKER

Language No Talk Woman
I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.
DOROTHY PARKER

Money Myself Wealth
Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
DOROTHY PARKER

Alcohol Quick Vice
Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
DOROTHY PARKER

Age Choice Clothes Grave Life Style Time Yourself
I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
DOROTHY PARKER

Easy Love People Sweet Yourself
I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I’m under the table/After four I’m under my host.
DOROTHY PARKER

Drink Food Funny Myself
I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
DOROTHY PARKER

Easy Love People Sweet Yourself
You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
DOROTHY PARKER

Old Teaching Trick Yourself
Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
DOROTHY PARKER

Art Seat Writing
Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!
DOROTHY PARKER

Action Hate Hell Identity Love Myself Yourself
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 PARKER

Animal Business People Right Yourself
Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
DOROTHY PARKER

Death Growth Rose Willing
I’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
DOROTHY PARKER

Character Drink Identity Myself Problem Writing
Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
DOROTHY PARKER

Death God
I don’t mind anything that’s written about me, as long as it’s not true.
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Mindset True Writing

Writing well is the best revenge.

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