If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
DOROTHY PARKERThe definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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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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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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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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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 like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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The only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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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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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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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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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 best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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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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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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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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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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