You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
DOROTHY PARKERThis is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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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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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
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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 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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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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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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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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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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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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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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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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