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.
DOROTHY PARKERI can’t write five words but that I change seven.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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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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What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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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 don’t mind anything that’s written about me, as long as it’s not true.
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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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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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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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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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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Writing well is the best revenge.
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