And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
DOROTHY PARKERDrink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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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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Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.
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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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It was written without fear and without research.
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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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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
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Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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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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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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