I hate writing, I love having written.
DOROTHY PARKERDon’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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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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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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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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You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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