Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
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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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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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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 only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
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The Monte Carlo casino refused to admit me until I was properly dressed so I went and found my stockings, and then came back and lost my shirt.
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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It was written without fear and without research.
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