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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

Dorothy Parker

[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that’s much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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Big Enough Friendship Funny Home Need Place Room
Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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Goodness Hide Safety Treasure Woman
Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
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Excitement Fortune Irritation
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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Future Love Past Seek Sorrow
Women and elephants never forget.
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Animal Forget Funny Woman
If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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Appearance Fashion Funny Love Sex
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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Age Choice Clothes Grave Life Style Time Yourself
The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
DOROTHY PARKER

Education Learning Yourself
It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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Kill Mess Myself Tragedy
He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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Age Children Forever Himself Time Writing
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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Clean Professional Way Writing
Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
DOROTHY PARKER

Genius Material Talent Writing
Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
DOROTHY PARKER

Acceptance Leaving Myself
They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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Quiet Storm
You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
DOROTHY PARKER

Herself Leadership Thinking Yourself
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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Friendship Greatness Happiness Present Writing Young

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