And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
DOROTHY PARKERIf you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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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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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.
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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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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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