The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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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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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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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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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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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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By the time you swear you’re his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this — One of you is lying.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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Writing well is the best revenge.
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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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