Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
DOROTHY PARKERI can’t write five words but that I change seven.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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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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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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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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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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It was written without fear and without research.
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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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You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
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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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If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
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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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If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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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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This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn’t touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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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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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I’m under the table/After four I’m under my host.
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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