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 PARKERThe 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?
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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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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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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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
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Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie.
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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