I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
DOROTHY PARKERThe definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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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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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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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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If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.
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