Writing well is the best revenge.
DOROTHY PARKERHe is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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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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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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