Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
DOROTHY PARKERThe definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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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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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
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Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
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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!
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie.
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Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
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If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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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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