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    Dorothy Parker
    “I hate writing, I love having written.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: writing, writing-process
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    Dorothy Parker
    “Don't look at me in that tone of voice.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: disapproval, humor, wordplay
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    Dorothy Parker
    “I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: humor
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    Dorothy Parker
    “I like to have a martini,
    Two at the very most.
    After three I'm under the table,
    after four I'm under my host.”
    ― Dorothy Parker, The Collected Dorothy Parker
    tags: drinking, drunken-behaviour, humor
    1310 likes

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    Dorothy Parker
    “Tell him I was too fucking busy-- or vice versa.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: wordplay
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    Dorothy Parker
    “Inventory:

    "Four be the things I am wiser to know:
    Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
    Four be the things I'd been better without:
    Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.
    Three be the things I shall never attain:
    Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
    Three be the things I shall have till I die:
    Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.”
    ― Dorothy Parker, The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker
    tags: champagne, contentment, curiosity, doubt, envy, foes, friends, hope, idleness, inventory, knowledge, laughter, life, love, sorrow, sufficienty, superfluity, unattainable, values, wisdom
    1172 likes

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    Dorothy Parker
    “What fresh hell is this?”
    ― Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker
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    Dorothy Parker
    “That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: epitaph, humor, the-new-yorker
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    Dorothy Parker
    “You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.”
    ― Dorothy Parker, You Might As Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker
    tags: horticulture, puns
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  • #10
    Dorothy Parker
    “Brevity is the soul of lingerie.”
    ― Dorothy Parker, While Rome Burns
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  • #11
    Dorothy Parker
    “She was pleased to have him come and never sorry to see him go.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
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    Dorothy Parker
    “Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
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    If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor
    “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.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: achievement, authors, elements-of-style, favors, grammar, happiness, writing, writing-process
    529 likes

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  • #14
    Dorothy Parker
    “If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
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    Dorothy Parker
    “There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: humor, the-paris-review, wisecracks, wit
    374 likes

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  • #16
    Dorothy Parker
    “A hangover is the wrath of grapes.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: humour
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  • #17
    Dorothy Parker
    “I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
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  • #18
    Dorothy Parker
    “So, you're the man who can't spell 'fuck.'"
    Dorothy Parker to Norman Mailer after publishers had convinced Mailer to replace the word with a euphemism, 'fug,' in his 1948 book, "The Naked and the Dead.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: bad-reviews
    267 likes

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    Dorothy Parker
    “Women and elephants never forget.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
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  • #20
    Dorothy Parker
    “You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.”
    ― Dorothy Parker, The Algonquin Wits
    tags: attributed-no-source
    183 likes

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  • #21
    Dorothy Parker
    “She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: bad-reviews
    171 likes

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  • #22
    Dorothy Parker
    “Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.”
    ― Dorothy Parker, The Ladies of the Corridor
    178 likes



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