There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
DOROTHY PARKERNever throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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The Monte Carlo casino refused to admit me until I was properly dressed so I went and found my stockings, and then came back and lost my shirt.
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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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The only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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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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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?
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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