Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!
DOROTHY PARKERQuick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
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The writer’s way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?
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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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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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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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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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The only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
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Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
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The Monte Carlo casino refused to admit me until I was properly dressed so I went and found my stockings, and then came back and lost my shirt.
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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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Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
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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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