Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
DOROTHY PARKERMaybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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I’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money.
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I’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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Writing well is the best revenge.
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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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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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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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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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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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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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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of 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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Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
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I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.
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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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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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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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