But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
DOROTHY PARKERThere’s life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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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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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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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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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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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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