He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
DOROTHY PARKERIt 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.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
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I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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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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If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find 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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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don’t catch horses going around looking like people, do you?
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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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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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Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie.
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