I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
DOROTHY PARKERCreativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Women and elephants never forget.
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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie.
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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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There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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