I hate writing, I love having written.
DOROTHY PARKERMisfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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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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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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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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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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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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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
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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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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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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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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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