Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
DOROTHY PARKERI’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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It was written without fear and without research.
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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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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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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I’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money.
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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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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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