If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
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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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
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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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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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