Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
DOROTHY PARKERThree be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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The Monte Carlo casino refused to admit me until I was properly dressed so I went and found my stockings, and then came back and lost my shirt.
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Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I’ll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!
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You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
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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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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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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
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It was written without fear and without research.
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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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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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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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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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