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Dorothy Parker Inspirational Quotes (207)

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She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.
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We were all imitative. We all wandered in after Miss Edna St. Vincent Millay. We were all being dashing and gallant, declaring we weren't virgins, whether we were or not.
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Newton's Fourth Law: Every action has an equal and opposite satisfaction.
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Prince or commoner, tenor or bass, Painter or plumber or never-do-well, Do me a favor and shut your face - Poets alone should kiss and tell.
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When you have to apologize, it is well, I suppose, to get the thing over quickly.
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Oh, both my shoes are shiny new, And pristine is my hat My dress is 1922… My life is all like that.
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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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I shudder at the thought of men.... I'm due to fall in love again
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I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
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Despite his persecutions, Mr. [Upton] Sinclair reveals himself in Money Writes! to be an enviable man. Always the thing he desires to believe is the thing he feels he knows to be true.
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People are more fun than anyone.
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What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
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The ones I like are ‘cheque’ and ‘enclosed.’
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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, a medley of extemporanea, And love is a thing that can never go wrong, and I am Marie of Romania.
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On lady novelists: As artists they're rot, but as providers they're oil wells they gush. Norris said she never wrote a story unless it was fun to do. I understand Ferber whistles at her typewriter.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.
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There must be courage there must be no awe. There must be criticism, for humor, to my mind, is encapsulated in criticism. There must be a disciplined eye and a wild mind...There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about it.
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A list of authors who have made themselves most beloved and therefore, most comfortable financially, shows that it is our national joy to mistake for the first-rate, the fecund rate.
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Age before beauty, and pearls before swine.
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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.
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There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
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Art is a form of catharsis emotional release, purging, cleansing, purifying.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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