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.
DOROTHY PARKER
And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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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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Women and elephants never forget.
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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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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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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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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 only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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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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Writing well is the best revenge.
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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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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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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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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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