Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
DOROTHY PARKERNow 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!
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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I’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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Writing well is the best revenge.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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The only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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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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That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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