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!
DOROTHY PARKEROf Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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I’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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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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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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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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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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The writer’s way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
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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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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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