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Quotes by Dorothy Parker

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

Dorothy Parker : American writer, poet, journalist, satirist, humorist
Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
Source: New York Times
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Razors pain you
Rivers are damp
Acids stain you
and drugs cause cramp
Guns arn't lawful
Nooses give
Gas smells awful
You might as well live

Dorothy Parker : American writer, poet, journalist, satirist, humorist
Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
 
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Curiousity is the cure for boredom.  There is no cure for curiousity.

Dorothy Parker : American writer, poet, journalist, satirist, humorist
Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
 
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I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things.

Dorothy Parker : American writer, poet, journalist, satirist, humorist
Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
 
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You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think.

Dorothy Parker : American writer, poet, journalist, satirist, humorist
Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
 
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Summer makes me drowsy, Autumn makes me sing, Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.

Dorothy Parker : American writer, poet, journalist, satirist, humorist
Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
 
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Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

Dorothy Parker : American writer, poet, journalist, satirist, humorist
Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
Source: Paris Review.
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Of Katharine Hepburn in play "The Lake," 1933: She ran the whole gamut of her emotions from A to B.

Dorothy Parker : American writer, poet, journalist, satirist, humorist
Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
Source: quoted in A. Woollcott, While Rome Burns, `Our Mrs Parker'
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If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.

Dorothy Parker : American writer, poet, journalist, satirist, humorist
Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
 
More quotes about: god, justice, money, people
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It costs me never a stab nor squirm To tread by chance upon a worm. 'Aha, my little dear,' I say, 'Your clan will pay me back one day.'

Dorothy Parker : American writer, poet, journalist, satirist, humorist
Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
Source: 'Thought for a Sunshiny Morning.' Sunset Gun
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