But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
DOROTHY PARKERAnd if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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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.
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That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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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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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
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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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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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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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