Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
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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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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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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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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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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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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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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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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