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.
DOROTHY PARKERTake me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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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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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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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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This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn’t touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
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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 I didn’t care for fun and such, I’d probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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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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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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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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