If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.
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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If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
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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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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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If I didn’t care for fun and such, I’d probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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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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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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Writing well is the best revenge.
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The only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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