I’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
DOROTHY PARKERCreativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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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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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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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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Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
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The only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
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A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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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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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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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.
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.
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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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