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  • #1
    Dorothy Parker
    “The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #2
    Dorothy Parker
    “If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised.”
    Dorothy Parker, While Rome Burns

  • #3
    Dorothy Parker
    “The two most beautiful words in the English language are 'check enclosed.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #4
    Dorothy Parker
    “I'm not a writer with a drinking problem, I'm a drinker with a writing problem.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #5
    Dorothy Parker
    [On Oscar Wilde:]

    "If, with the literate, I am
    Impelled to try an epigram,
    I never seek to take the credit;
    We all assume that Oscar said it.

    [Life Magazine, June 2, 1927]”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #6
    Dorothy Parker
    “Her big heart did not, as is so sadly often the case, inhabit a big bosom.”
    Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker

  • #7
    Dorothy Parker
    “It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #8
    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

  • #9
    Dorothy Parker
    “The plot is so tired that even this reviewer, who in infancy was let drop by a nurse with the result that she has ever since been mystified by amateur coin tricks, was able to guess the identity of the murderer from the middle of the book.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #10
    Dorothy Parker
    “This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #11
    Dorothy Parker
    “I think that the direction in which a writer should look is around.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #12
    Dorothy Parker
    “Tell him I was too fucking busy-- or vice versa.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #13
    Dorothy Parker
    “She realizes she doesn't know as much as God but feels she knows as much as God knew when he was her age.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #14
    Neil Gaiman
    “To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists

  • #15
    Cecil Baldwin
    “The past is gone, and cannot harm you anymore. And while the future is fast coming for you, it always flinches first and settles in as the gentle present.”
    Cecil Baldwin

  • #16
    Cecil Baldwin
    “Sleep heavily and know that I am here with you now. The past is gone, and cannot harm you anymore. And while the future is fast coming for you, it always flinches first and settles in as the gentle present. This now, this us? We can cope with that. We can do this together. You and I, drowsily, but comfortably.”
    Welcome to Night Vale

  • #17
    Cecil Baldwin
    “The present tense of regret is indecision.”
    Welcome to Night Vale

  • #18
    Joseph Fink
    “Are we living a life that is safe from harm?

    Of course not. We never are. But that’s not the right question. The question is are we living a life that is worth the harm?”
    Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

  • #19
    Cecil Baldwin
    “It’s nice to have a station pet. Wish it wasn’t trapped in a hovering prison in the men’s bathroom, but listen: no pet is perfect. It becomes perfect when you learn to accept it for what it is.”
    Welcome to Night Vale

  • #20
    “You may not live through it. And if you do, the you that lived through it will not be the same you that lived before it. In that sense, you will definitely not exist after, and I’m sorry.”
    Old Woman Josie

  • #21
    “[Mayor Dana] I don't know a lot of things. I do know there will always be problems for Night Vale. There are so many. Usually they pass. Often they kill many people, but what are people but deaths that haven't happened yet?

    [Jackie] Births that already happened?”
    joseph fink, jeffrey cranor

  • #22
    Joseph Fink
    “Science was meant to be hard. After all, what was science but a bunch of bored human beings trying to challenge themselves when faith became too easy”
    Joseph Fink, It Devours!

  • #23
    “The one standing in infinite glory is you; the one fallen from grace is also you. What matters is ‘you’ and not the state of you.”
    Mò Xiāng Tóngxiù, 天官赐福 [Tiān Guān Cì Fú]

  • #24
    “But what he hadn’t expected was that when everyone feared him and flattered him, Lan WangJi scolded him right in his face; when everyone spurned him and loathed him, Lan WangJi stood by his side.”
    墨香铜臭, 魔道祖师 [Mó Dào Zǔ Shī]

  • #25
    “Don’t you understand? When you’re standing on their side, you’re the bizarre genius, the miraculous hero, the force of the rebellion, the flower that blooms alone. But the second your voice differs from theirs, you’ve lost your mind, you’ve ignored morality, you’ve walked the crooked path.”
    墨香铜臭, 魔道祖师 [Mó Dào Zǔ Shī]

  • #26
    “Young man, there are two cringe-worthy phrases in one’s life that must be said, no matter what.”

    “Which two?”

    “‘Thank you’, and 'I’m sorry’.”

    “What can anybody do to me if I don’t say them?”

    “Someday, you’ll say those words in tears.”
    Mo Xiang Tong Xiu, 魔道祖师 [Mó Dào Zǔ Shī]

  • #27
    “The people finally realized what was going on. It seemed that whenever someone tried to argue with Wei WuXian, Lan WangJi would seal their lips.”
    墨香铜臭, 魔道祖师 [Mó Dào Zǔ Shī]

  • #28
    “Wei WuXian suddenly murmured, '… Lan Zhan.'

    He reached out and grabbed one of Lan WangJi’s sleeves. Lan WangJi had always been beside him. He immediately bent down and whispered, 'I am here.”
    墨香铜臭, 魔道祖师 [Mó Dào Zǔ Shī]

  • #29
    “Wei WuXian grinned and pointed at himself. "How about this one?"
    Lan WangJi, "Mine."
    "..."
    Lan WangJi stared at him, slowly and articulately stating, "Mine.”
    墨香铜臭, 魔道祖师 [Mó Dào Zǔ Shī]

  • #30
    “The night had passed. The sun in the sky was about to rise.

    And the sun on the ground was falling.”
    墨香铜臭, 魔道祖师 [Mó Dào Zǔ Shī]
    tags: mdzs



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