Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
DOROTHY PARKER[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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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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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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Women and elephants never forget.
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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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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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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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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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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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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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Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
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There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
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Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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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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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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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
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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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