Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
DOROTHY PARKEROf Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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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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Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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It was written without fear and without research.
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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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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie.
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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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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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