You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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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This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn’t touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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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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It was written without fear and without research.
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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The writer’s way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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