Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
DOROTHY PARKERDon’t look at me in that tone of voice.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
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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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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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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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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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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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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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