Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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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Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I’ll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!
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Women and elephants never forget.
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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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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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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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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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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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