His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
DOROTHY PARKERGenius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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 only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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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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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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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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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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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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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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