Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
DOROTHY PARKERWriting well is the best revenge.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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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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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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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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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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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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A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
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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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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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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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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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