Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
DOROTHY PARKERTelegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.
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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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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie.
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All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don’t catch horses going around looking like people, do you?
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I’m under the table/After four I’m under my host.
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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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I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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