Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
DOROTHY PARKERHonesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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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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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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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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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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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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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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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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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
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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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