"Hollywood is one place in the world where you can die of encouragement."
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Dorothy Parker quotes (page 14 of 16)
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"He lies below, correct in cypress wood, And entertains the most exclusive worms."
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"God, the bitter misery that reading works into this world! Everybody knows that - everbody who IS everybody. All the best minds have been off reading for years. Look at the swing La Rouchefoucauld took at it. He said that if nobody had ever learned to read, very few people would be in love. Good for you, La Rouchefoucauld; nice going, boy. I wish I’d never learned to read."
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"I know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sake of a great work. But this is no great work, you see."
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"[On Lou Tellegen's Women Have Been Kind:] The book ... has all the elegance of a quirked little finger and all the glitter of a pair of new rubbers."
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"There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil."
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"People are more fun than anyone."
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"Said of her husband on the day their divorce became final: Oh, don't worry about Alan. . . . Alan will always land on somebody's feet."
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"[On being told party guests were ducking for apples:] There, but for a typographical error, is the story of my life."
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"... if this world were anything near what it should be there would be no more need of a Book Week than there would be a of a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children."
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"[On Dashiell Hammett:] ... he is so hard-boiled you could roll him on the White House lawn."
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"Ah, clear they see and true they say That one shall weep, and one shall stray"
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"[On Edna Ferber's Ice Palace] ... the book, which is going to be a movie, has the plot and characters of a book which is going to be a movie."
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"This must be a gift book. That is to say a book, which you wouldn't take on any other terms."
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"Civilization is coming to an end, you understand."
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"Upton Sinclair is his own King Charles' head. He cannot keep himself out of his writings, try though he may; or, by this time, try though he doesn't."
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"Trapped like a trap in a trap"
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"Tonstant Weader fwowed up."
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"Scratch an actor and you'll find an actress."
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"I'll think about something else. I'll just sit quietly. If I could sit still. If I could sit still, maybe I could read. Oh, all the books are about people who love each other, truly and sweetly. What do they want to write about that for? Don't they know it isn't true? Don't they know it's a lie, it's a God-damned lie? What do they have to tell about that for, when they know how it hurts?"
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