I hate writing, I love having written.
DOROTHY PARKERI require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that’s much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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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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I’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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The Monte Carlo casino refused to admit me until I was properly dressed so I went and found my stockings, and then came back and lost my shirt.
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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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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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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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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