Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
DOROTHY PARKERLos Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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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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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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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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Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!
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Writing well is the best revenge.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
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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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I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I’m under the table/After four I’m under my host.
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