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Dorothy Parker Quote - I can’t write five words but that I change seven.

I can’t write five words but that I change seven.

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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that’s much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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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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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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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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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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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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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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If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find 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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Genius Material Talent Writing
Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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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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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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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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Easy Love People Sweet Yourself
Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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Genius Material Talent Writing
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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Future Love Past Seek Sorrow

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