Quote #11
And I'll stay away from Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
More from Dorothy Parker
- [On the most beautiful words in the English language] The ones I like...are 'cheque' and 'enclosed.'
- I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn thin…
- Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
- I'm never going to accomplish anything; that's perfectly clear to me. I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the…
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- One more drink and I'd have been under the host.
- The House Beautiful is, for me, the play lousy.
- There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.