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121 " The two most beautiful words in the English language are 'check enclosed. "
― Dorothy Parker
122 " Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants. "
123 " Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat. "
124 " Her mind lives tidily, apart from cold and noise and pain. And bolts the door against her heart, out wailing in the rain. "
125 " If I don't drive around the park,I'm pretty sure to make my mark.If I'm in bed each night by ten,I may get back my looks again,If I abstain from fun and such,I'll probably amount to much,But I shall stay the way I am,Because I do not give a damn… "
126 " I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending. "
― Dorothy Parker , The Portable Dorothy Parker
127 " It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes. "
128 " Sometimes I think I'll give up trying, and just go completely Russian and sit on a stove and moan all day. "
129 " Her big heart did not, as is so sadly often the case, inhabit a big bosom. "
130 " All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends. "
131 " Oh, seek, my love, your newer way;I'll not be left in sorrow.So long as I have yesterday,Go take your damned tomorrow! "
132 " It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate. "
133 " The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism. "
134 " Authors and actors and artists and such - Never know nothing, and never know much. "
135 " I'll be the way I was when I first met him. Then maybe he'll like me again. I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them. "
136 " The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe. "
― Dorothy Parker , Enough Rope
137 " 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. "
138 " I wish, I wish I were a poisonous bacterium. "
139 " Trapped like a trap in a trap "
140 " If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the fact that it's the best you can do that kills you. "