I don’t mind anything that’s written about me, as long as it’s not true.
DOROTHY PARKERThe cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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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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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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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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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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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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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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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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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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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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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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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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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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