The writer’s way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?
DOROTHY PARKERMost good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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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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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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Writing well is the best revenge.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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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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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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