The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
DOROTHY PARKERLos Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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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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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
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This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn’t touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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[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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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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