A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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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Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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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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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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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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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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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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