It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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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Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
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I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I’m under the table/After four I’m under my host.
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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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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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie.
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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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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I’ll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!
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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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