Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
DOROTHY PARKERYou do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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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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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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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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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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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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Writing well is the best revenge.
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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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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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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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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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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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