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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
    “This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.”
    Sid Ziff

  • #3
    Dorothy Parker
    Résumé
    Razors pain you,
    Rivers are damp,
    Acids stain you,
    And drugs cause cramp.
    Guns aren't lawful,
    Nooses give,
    Gas smells awful.
    You might as well live.”
    Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope

  • #4
    Dorothy Parker
    “Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #5
    Dorothy Parker
    “I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #6
    Dorothy Parker
    “Don't look at me in that tone of voice.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #7
    Dorothy Parker
    “I hate writing, I love having written.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #8
    Dorothy Parker
    “Tell him I was too fucking busy-- or vice versa.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #9
    Dorothy Parker
    “What fresh hell is this?”
    Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker

  • #10
    Dorothy Parker
    “They sicken of the calm who know the storm.”
    Dorothy Parker, Sunset Gun: Poems

  • #11
    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

  • #12
    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

  • #13
    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

  • #14
    George R.R. Martin
    “... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #15
    George R.R. Martin
    “Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #16
    George R.R. Martin
    “Fear cuts deeper than swords.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #17
    George R.R. Martin
    “Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
    George R. R. Martin

  • #18
    David Ogilvy
    “The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.”
    David M. Ogilvy

  • #19
    David Ogilvy
    “Hard work never killed a man. Men die of boredom, psychological conflict, and disease. They do not die of hard work.”
    David Ogilvy

  • #20
    David Ogilvy
    “Where people aren’t having any fun, they seldom produce good work.”
    David Ogilvy, Confessions of an Advertising Man

  • #21
    David Ogilvy
    “Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of immortals.”
    David Ogilvy

  • #22
    Brendan Behan
    “I'm a drinker with writing problems.”
    Brendan Behan

  • #23
    Brendan Behan
    “Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.”
    Brendan Behan

  • #24
    Dorothy Parker
    “If wild my breast and sore my pride,
    I bask in dreams of suicide,
    If cool my heart and high my head
    I think 'How lucky are the dead.”
    Dorothy Parker, The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker

  • #25
    Dorothy Parker
    “I'd like to have money. And I'd like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that's too adorable, I'd rather have money.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #26
    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

  • #27
    Dorothy Parker
    “If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #28
    Karen Blixen
    “Write a little every day, without hope, without despair.”
    Isak Dinesen

  • #29
    Dorothy Parker
    “Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #30
    “They told me that to make her fall in love, i had to make her laugh. But everytime she laughs, i’m the one who falls in love.”
    Tommaso Ferraris



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