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Dorothy Parker Quote - Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.

Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.

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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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Bad Death Feeling Myself Time
A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Acceptance Leaving Myself
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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Atmosphere Best Children Home
There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
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[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that’s much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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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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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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Armor Protection Safety Weapon
Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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Friendship Myself Oneself Thinking
He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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Age Children Forever Himself Time Writing
[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
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Friendship Mom Pregnant Yourself
The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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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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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
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Excitement Fortune Irritation
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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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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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Language No Talk Woman

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