If I didn’t care for fun and such, I’d probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.
DOROTHY PARKERThey sicken of the calm who know the storm.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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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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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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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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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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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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If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
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If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.
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Writing well is the best revenge.
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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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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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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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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 I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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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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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
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