Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
DOROTHY PARKERI like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I’m under the table/After four I’m under my host.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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I’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
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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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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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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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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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If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
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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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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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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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