If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
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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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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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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Writing well is the best revenge.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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