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 PARKERThey sicken of the calm who know the storm.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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The Monte Carlo casino refused to admit me until I was properly dressed so I went and found my stockings, and then came back and lost my shirt.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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