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Dorothy Parker Inspirational Quotes (207)

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Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn.
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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Hell's afloat in lover's tears.
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All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted.
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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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.
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The Swiss are a neat and an industrious people, none of whom is under seventy-five years of age.
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My own dear love, he is strong and bold And he cares not what comes after. His words ring sweet as a chime of gold, And his eyes are lit with laughter. He is jubilant as a flag unfurled - Oh, a girl, she'd not forget him. My own dear love, he is all my world - And I wish I'd never met him.
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What writes worse than a Theodore Dreiser? ... Two Theodore Dreisers.
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There are times when images blow to fluff, and comparisons stiffen and shrivel.
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Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!
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Nevil Shute's On the Beach is no Christmas carol, but it seems to me a remarkably fine novel, one which I read, in the peculiarly repulsive phrase, with my eyes glued to the page.
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[On Kay Strozzi in The Silent Witness:] Miss Strozzi ... had the temerity to wear as truly horrible a gown as ever I have seen on the American stage. ... Had she not luckily been strangled by a member of the cast while disporting this garment, I should have fought my way to the stage and done her in, myself.
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The writer's way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?
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Hollywood is one place in the world where you can die of encouragement.
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