I’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
DOROTHY PARKERMoney cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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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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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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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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There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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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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I don’t mind anything that’s written about me, as long as it’s not true.
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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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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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