Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
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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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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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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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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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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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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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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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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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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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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Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Writing well is the best revenge.
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