Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
DOROTHY PARKERNow, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
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If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
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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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There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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It was written without fear and without research.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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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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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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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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