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Dorothy Parker
“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.”
“I hate writing, I love having written.”
“I won't telephone him. I'll never telephone him again as long as I live. He'll rot in hell, before I'll call him up. Yo...
“There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and Geo...
“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.”
“Inventory:"Four be the things I am wiser to know:Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.Four be the things I'd been bett...
“Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.”
“Be you wise and never sad,You will get your lovely lad.Never serious be, nor true,And your wish will come to you--And i...
“RésuméRazors pain you,Rivers are damp,Acids stain you,And drugs cause cramp.Guns aren't lawful,Nooses give,Gas smells a...
“They sicken of the calm who know the storm.”
“If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present the...
“In youth, it was a way I had,To do my best to please.And change, with every passing ladTo suit his theories.But now I k...
“I require three things in a man: he must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.”
“I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of popp...
