Writing well is the best revenge.
DOROTHY PARKERIt’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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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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Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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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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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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Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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