Writing well is the best revenge.
DOROTHY PARKERGenius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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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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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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It was written without fear and without research.
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What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
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If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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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 only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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