Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
DOROTHY PARKERThe only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
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If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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The only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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Writing well is the best revenge.
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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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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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