If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.
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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You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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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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The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
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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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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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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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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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