And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
DOROTHY PARKERTake me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
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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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Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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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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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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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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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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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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