You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
DOROTHY PARKERThe only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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The writer’s way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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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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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of 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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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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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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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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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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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
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