You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
DOROTHY PARKERA little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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It was written without fear and without research.
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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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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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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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Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie.
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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.
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Writing well is the best revenge.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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By the time you swear you’re his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this — One of you is lying.
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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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