It was written without fear and without research.
DOROTHY PARKERSaid after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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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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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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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 me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn’t touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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