And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
DOROTHY PARKERI can’t write five words but that I change seven.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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It was written without fear and without research.
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It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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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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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
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