If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
DOROTHY PARKERAnd I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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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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I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
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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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Writing well is the best revenge.
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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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You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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It was written without fear and without research.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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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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