Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
DOROTHY PARKERPeople ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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Writing well is the best revenge.
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I don’t mind anything that’s written about me, as long as it’s not true.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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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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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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