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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

Dorothy Parker

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
DOROTHY PARKER

Fingers Hands Leaving Love Wisdom
Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
DOROTHY PARKER

Acceptance Leaving Myself
Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
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Dance Death Drink Laughter
I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.
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Money Myself Wealth
Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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Genius Material Talent Writing
Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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Armor Protection Safety Weapon
But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
DOROTHY PARKER

Forget Give Up Inspirational Myself One Liner
If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
DOROTHY PARKER

Appearance Clothes Fashion Party Yourself
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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Distance Hell Simplicity Sports Truth Word
The Monte Carlo casino refused to admit me until I was properly dressed so I went and found my stockings, and then came back and lost my shirt.
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Appearance Fashion Lost Myself
Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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Friendship Myself Oneself Thinking
Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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Alcohol Quick Vice
Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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Art Seat Writing
[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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Funny Hell Herself Phone
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.
DOROTHY PARKER

Best Books Hands Myself Run
A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
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Best Friendship Girl Herself
If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
DOROTHY PARKER

End Surprise Woman
The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
DOROTHY PARKER

Food Forever People
I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
DOROTHY PARKER

Easy Love People Sweet Yourself
Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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Genius Material Talent Writing
They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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Quiet Storm
I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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Hate Myself People Rich
I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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Easy Love People Sweet Yourself
They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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Sick Storm
The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
DOROTHY PARKER

Big Earth Fools Love Man Woman
Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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City Place Search
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.
DOROTHY PARKER

Friendship Greatness Happiness Present Writing Young

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