Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
DOROTHY PARKERThere’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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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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That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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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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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Writing well is the best revenge.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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