The writer’s way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?
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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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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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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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
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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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Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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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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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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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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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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