If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
DOROTHY PARKERI require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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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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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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Writing well is the best revenge.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
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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 cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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It was written without fear and without research.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
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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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