Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
DOROTHY PARKERWriting well is the best revenge.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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 I didn’t care for fun and such, I’d probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.
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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
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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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Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don’t catch horses going around looking like people, do you?
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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