People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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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I’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Writing well is the best revenge.
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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There’s life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
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