If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
DOROTHY PARKERI hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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I’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.
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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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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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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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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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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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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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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.
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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.
DOROTHY PARKER