The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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By the time you swear you’re his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this — One of you is lying.
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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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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn’t touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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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!
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