If I didn’t care for fun and such, I’d probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.
DOROTHY PARKERI’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.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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I don’t mind anything that’s written about me, as long as it’s not true.
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Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.
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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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It was written without fear and without research.
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It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.
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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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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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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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If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.
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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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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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