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There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

Dorothy Parker

It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.
DOROTHY PARKER

Entertainment Fun Goodness Myself
You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
DOROTHY PARKER

Action Responsibility Yourself
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
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Fingers Hands Leaving Love Wisdom
Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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Genius Material Talent Writing
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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Funny Life Study Theft Yourself
Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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Break Friendship Time
Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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Myself Tone View Voice
You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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Old Teaching Trick Yourself
I’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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Character Drink Identity Myself Problem Writing
Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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Letter Look Word
Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
DOROTHY PARKER

Acceptance Leaving Myself
They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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Sick Storm
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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Age Choice Clothes Grave Life Style Time Yourself
Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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Act Quick
Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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Creativity Discipline Eyes Mindset Wild
And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
DOROTHY PARKER

Himself Run Stay

There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

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There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

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