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Dorothy Parker Inspirational Quotes (207)

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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. You don't have to give me strength, God I have it myself. If he wanted me, he could get me. He knows where I am. He knows I'm waiting here. He's so sure of me, so sure. I wonder why they hate you, as soon as they are sure of you.
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And where does she find them?
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I fell into writing, I suppose, being one of those awful children who wrote verses. I went to a convent in New York-the Blessed Sacrament... I was fired from there, finally, for a lot of things, among them my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was spontaneous combustion.
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I know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sake of a great work. But this is no great work, you see.
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Why, after all, should readers never be harrowed? Surely there is enough happiness in life without having to go to books for it.
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ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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Where's the man could ease a heart Like a satin gown?
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Where unwilling dies the rose buds the new another year.
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There was always something immensely comic to her in the thought of living elsewhere than New York. She could not regard as serious proposals that she share a western residence.
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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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Then she told herself to stop her nonsense. If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them, more easily each time, so easily, soon, that you did not even realize you had gone out searching. Women alone often developed into experts at the practice. She must never join their dismal league.
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Just begin a story with such a phrase as 'I remember Disraeli - poor old Dizz! - once saying to me, in answer to my poke in the eye,' and you will find me and Morpheus off in a corner, necking.
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I wanted to be cute. That's the terrible thing. I should have had more sense.
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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.
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It's not the tragedies that kill us it's the messes.
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... if this world were anything near what it should be there would be no more need of a Book Week than there would be a of a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
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But I give you my word, in the entire book there is nothing that cannot be said aloud in mixed company. And there is, also, nothing that makes you a bit the wiser. I wonder--oh, what will you think of me--if those two statements do not verge upon the synonymous.
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I don't want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.
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Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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I find her anecdotes more efficacious than sheep-counting, rain on a tin roof, or alanol tablets.... you will find me and Morpheus, off in a corner, necking.
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Don't look at me in that tone of voice.
Dorothy Parker
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