Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
DOROTHY PARKERAnd if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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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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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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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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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
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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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