Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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 require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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I’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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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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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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I don’t mind anything that’s written about me, as long as it’s not true.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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