Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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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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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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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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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I hate writing, I love having written.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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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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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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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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It was written without fear and without research.
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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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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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