People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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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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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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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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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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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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If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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