I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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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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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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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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The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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Writing well is the best revenge.
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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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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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If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
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