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?
DOROTHY PARKERAnd if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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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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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
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Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
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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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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
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