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title: "4 Pencil Quotes By Dorothy Parker"
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> [Somebody was using the pencil.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-parker/somebody-was-using-the-pencil/)

[Dorothy Parker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-parker/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bcb/dorothy-parker-700_inspirational_somebody-was-using-the-pencil-385473_385473.jpg)

> [There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-parker/there-s-life-for-you-spend-the-best-years-of-your-life-studying/)

[Dorothy Parker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-parker/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/146/dorothy-parker-700_eliot_there-s-life-for-you-spend-the-best-year_1623262.jpg)

> [The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-parker/the-only-useful-thing-i-ever-learned-in-school-was-that-if-you-spit/)

[Dorothy Parker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-parker/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b17/dorothy-parker-700_education_the-only-useful-thing-i-ever-learned-in_1706218.jpg)

> [...as for helping me in the outside world, the Convent taught me only that if you spit on a pencil eraser, it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-parker/as-for-helping-me-in-the-outside-world-the-convent-taught-me-only/)

[Dorothy Parker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-parker/)

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## Other authors on Pencil

## More by Dorothy Parker

> [There's little in taking or giving, There's little in water or wine: This living, this living, this living, Was never a project of mine.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-parker/there-s-little-in-taking-or-giving-there-s-little-in-water-or-wine/)

[Dorothy Parker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-parker/)

> [Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-parker/writing-is-the-art-of-applying-the-ass-to-the-seat/)

[Dorothy Parker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-parker/)

> [Hollywood is the one place on earth where you could die of encouragement.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-parker/hollywood-is-the-one-place-on-earth-where-you-could-die-of/)

[Dorothy Parker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-parker/)

> [“The two most beautiful words in the English language are 'check enclosed.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-parker/the-two-most-beautiful-words-in-the-english-language-are-check/)

[Dorothy Parker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-parker/)

> [Sometimes I think Ill give up trying, and just go completely Russian and sit on a stove and moan all day.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-parker/sometimes-i-think-ill-give-up-trying-and-just-go-completely-russian/)

[Dorothy Parker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-parker/)

> [I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-parker/i-was-always-sweet-at-first-oh-it-s-so-easy-to-be-sweet-to-people/)

[Dorothy Parker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-parker/)

> [Now to me, Edith looks like something that would eat her young.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-parker/now-to-me-edith-looks-like-something-that-would-eat-her-young/)

[Dorothy Parker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-parker/)

> [Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-parker/misfortune-and-recited-misfortune-especially-can-be-prolonged-to-the/)

[Dorothy Parker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-parker/)

> [The sun's gone dim, and the moon's gone black. For I loved him, and he didn't love back.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-parker/the-sun-s-gone-dim-and-the-moon-s-gone-black-for-i-loved-him-and-he/)

[Dorothy Parker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-parker/)

> [There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-parker/there-s-a-hell-of-a-distance-between-wisecracking-and-wit-wit-has/)

[Dorothy Parker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-parker/)

> [Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-parker/oh-life-is-a-glorious-cycle-of-song-a-medley-of-extemporanea-and-love/)

[Dorothy Parker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-parker/)

> [Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-parker/enjoyed-it-one-more-drink-and-i-d-have-been-under-the-host/)

[Dorothy Parker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-parker/)

> [This living, this living, this living Was never a project of mine.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-parker/this-living-this-living-this-living-was-never-a-project-of-mine/)

[Dorothy Parker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-parker/)

> [Flowers are heaven's masterpiece.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-parker/flowers-are-heaven-s-masterpiece/)

[Dorothy Parker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-parker/)

> [It costs me never a stab nor squirm / To tread by chance upon a worm. / Aha, my little dear, / I say,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-parker/it-costs-me-never-a-stab-nor-squirm-to-tread-by-chance-upon-a-worm/)

[Dorothy Parker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-parker/)

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