If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
DOROTHY PARKERAnd I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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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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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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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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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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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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If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.
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Writing well is the best revenge.
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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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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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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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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
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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!
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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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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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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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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