You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
DOROTHY PARKERAll I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don’t catch horses going around looking like people, do you?
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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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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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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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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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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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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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
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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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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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