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!
DOROTHY PARKERYou do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
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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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I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I’m under the table/After four I’m under my host.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
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There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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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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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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