And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
DOROTHY PARKERI can’t write five words but that I change seven.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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If I didn’t care for fun and such, I’d probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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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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I’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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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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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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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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