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?
DOROTHY PARKERWhat ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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Writing well is the best revenge.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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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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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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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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I’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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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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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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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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I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.
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That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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