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> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-parker/if-you-re-going-to-write-don-t-pretend-to-write-down-it-s-going-to-be/)

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

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## 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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