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 PARKERNever throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I’ll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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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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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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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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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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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.
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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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