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 PARKERWriting well is the best revenge.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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Writing well is the best revenge.
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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
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Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
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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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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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There’s life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
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