Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
DOROTHY PARKERTake me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
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There’s life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
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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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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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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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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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I’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money.
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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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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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