The only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
DOROTHY PARKERRidicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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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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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.
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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn’t touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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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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