Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
DOROTHY PARKERThe cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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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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If I didn’t care for fun and such, I’d probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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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.
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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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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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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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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
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