Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
DOROTHY PARKERIf 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.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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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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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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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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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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