But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
DOROTHY PARKERIf you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I’ll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!
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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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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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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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It was written without fear and without research.
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Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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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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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
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