The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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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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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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All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don’t catch horses going around looking like people, do you?
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Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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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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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn’t touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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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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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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It was written without fear and without research.
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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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