The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
DOROTHY PARKEROf Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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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?
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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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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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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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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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I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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