You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
DOROTHY PARKERNever throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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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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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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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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If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
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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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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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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 I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!
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I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.
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