Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
DOROTHY PARKERThat would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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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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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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I don’t mind anything that’s written about me, as long as it’s not true.
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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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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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If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
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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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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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If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
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