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!
DOROTHY PARKERPeople ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.
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There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
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I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.
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I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I’m under the table/After four I’m under my host.
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It was written without fear and without research.
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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I’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
DOROTHY PARKER







