Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
DOROTHY PARKERThere’s life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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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.
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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
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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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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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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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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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