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 PARKERBut I don’t give up; I forget why not.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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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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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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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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It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.
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Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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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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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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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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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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