Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
DOROTHY PARKERI don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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I don’t mind anything that’s written about me, as long as it’s not true.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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I’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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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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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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