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Dorothy Parker Quote - It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.

It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.

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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
DOROTHY PARKER

Genius Material Talent Writing
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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Entertainment Fun Goodness Myself
I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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Man Myself Relationship Requirement Stupidity
Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Acceptance Leaving Myself
But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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Forget Give Up Inspirational Myself One Liner
Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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Friendship Myself Oneself Thinking
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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Boredom Curious Deep
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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Fools Myself Sorry Touch
Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
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Excitement Fortune Irritation
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!
DOROTHY PARKER

Action Hate Hell Identity Love Myself Yourself
Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
DOROTHY PARKER

Brave Doctor Serious
Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Death God
The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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Cheating Hollywood Reality
Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.
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Challenge Honesty Survive Test Yourself
Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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Creativity Discipline Eyes Mindset Wild
They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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Sick Storm

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