Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
DOROTHY PARKERThat woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
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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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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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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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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 only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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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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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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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don’t catch horses going around looking like people, do you?
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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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