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!
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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Writing well is the best revenge.
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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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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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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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I’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money.
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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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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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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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