Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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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I’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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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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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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I don’t mind anything that’s written about me, as long as it’s not true.
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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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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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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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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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The writer’s way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?
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All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don’t catch horses going around looking like people, do you?
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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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