A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
DOROTHY PARKERThe writer’s way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that’s much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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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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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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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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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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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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The only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
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Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
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If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
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