Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!
DOROTHY PARKERAnd I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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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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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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Writing well is the best revenge.
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If I didn’t care for fun and such, I’d probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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The only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
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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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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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