Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
DOROTHY PARKERI hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
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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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[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that’s much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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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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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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