Writing well is the best revenge.
DOROTHY PARKERI was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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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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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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I don’t mind anything that’s written about me, as long as it’s not true.
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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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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The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
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If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
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Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
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I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I’m under the table/After four I’m under my host.
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A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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