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

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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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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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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If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
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A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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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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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn’t touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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Change Myself Word Writing
Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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By the time you swear you’re his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this — One of you is lying.
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Death Lying Marriage Passion Promise Time Yourself
His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
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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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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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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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Easy Love People Sweet Yourself
And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
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Atmosphere Best Children Home
It was written without fear and without research.
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Fear Research Writing

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