"They sicken at the calm that know the storm."

Parker, Dorothy on adversity
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"Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words."

Parker, Dorothy on wit
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"Razors pain you; rivers are damp; acids stain you; and drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful; you might as well live."

Parker, Dorothy on suicide
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"All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me."

Parker, Dorothy on autobiography   

"She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B."

Parker, Dorothy on acting and actors   

"Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)"

Parker, Dorothy on art   

"Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host."

Parker, Dorothy on art   

"He [Robert Benchley] and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery."

Parker, Dorothy on office   

"Scratch a lover, and find a foe."

Parker, Dorothy on love
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"Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away."

Parker, Dorothy on love
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"I shall stay the way I am because I do not give a damn."

Parker, Dorothy on apathy
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"You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think."

Parker, Dorothy on leadership
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"Gratitude -- the meanest and most sniveling attribute in the world."

Parker, Dorothy on gratitude   

"I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true."

Parker, Dorothy on gossip   

"Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness."

Parker, Dorothy on etiquette
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"The two most beautiful words in the English language are: Check Enclosed."

Parker, Dorothy on words
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