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Dorothy Parker Quote - Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.

Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.

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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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Funny Hell Herself Phone
Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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Genius Material Talent Writing
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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Distance Hell Simplicity Sports Truth Word
Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
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Dance Death Drink Laughter
People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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Death People Young
But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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Forget Give Up Inspirational Myself One Liner
A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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Fight Liberty Man Room Start
I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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Change Myself Word Writing
Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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Appearance Beautiful Greatness Healing Myself Time
Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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Clean Dirty Hands Nature Play Target Yourself
If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
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Dance End Surprise Woman Young
What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
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Beautiful Clean Deep Order Skin Ugly
Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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Bad Death Feeling Myself Time
The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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Avoid Best Drink Stay Way
I’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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Character Drink Identity Myself Problem Writing
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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Funny Life Study Theft Yourself

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