This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
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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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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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?
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Writing well is the best revenge.
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There’s life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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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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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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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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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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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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