I’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money.
DOROTHY PARKERThe only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie.
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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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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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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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