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Letter "D" » Dorothy Parker Quotes
«His ignorance was an Empire State Building of ignorance. You had to admire it for its size.»
«I can't write five words but that I change seven.»
«There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.»
Author: Dorothy Parker
(Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
calisthenics, distance, wisecrack, wisecracking, wisecracks, wit
«As only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night.»
Author: Dorothy Parker
(Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
get through, The New Yorker, The Night, The Twilight, twilight
«Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart.»
«Scratch a lover, find a foe»
Author: Dorothy Parker
(Poet, Writer)
| About:
Enemies
| Keywords:
foe, from scratch, lover, scratch, scratched, scratches
«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.»
«If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.»
«People are more fun than any body»
«Outspoken by whom?»
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