I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
DOROTHY PARKERThey tire of quiet, that have known the storm
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don’t catch horses going around looking like people, do you?
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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 was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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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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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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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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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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That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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