It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
DOROTHY PARKERFriends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
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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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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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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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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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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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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 liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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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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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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