This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
DOROTHY PARKERYou can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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There’s life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
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Writing well is the best revenge.
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By the time you swear you’re his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this — One of you is lying.
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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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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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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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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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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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I’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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