There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
DOROTHY PARKER
I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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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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The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
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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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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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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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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
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