Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie.
DOROTHY PARKEROf course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
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I’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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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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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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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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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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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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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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