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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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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By the time you swear you’re his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this — One of you is lying.
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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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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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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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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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Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.
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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!
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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