It was written without fear and without research.
DOROTHY PARKERAll I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.
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Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
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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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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.
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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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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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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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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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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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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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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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