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.
DOROTHY PARKERShould they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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I’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money.
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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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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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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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It was written without fear and without research.
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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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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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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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