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!
DOROTHY PARKERA little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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The only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
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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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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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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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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
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Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
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There’s life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
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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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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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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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