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Words Quotes by Dorothy Parker
- She will never win him, whose words had shown she feared to lose.
- It takes me six months to do a story. I think it out and write it sentence by sentence - no first draft. I can't…
- There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
- My own dear love, he is strong and bold And he cares not what comes after. His words ring sweet as a chime of gold,…
- Into love and out again, Thus I went and thus I go. Spare your voice, and hold your pen: Well and bitterly I know All…
- Lady, lady, never start Conversation toward your heart; Keep your pretty words serene; Never murmur what you mean. Show yourself, by word and look, Swift…
- Daily dawns another day; I must up, to make my way. Though I dress and drink and eat, Move my fingers and my feet, Learn…
- I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
- Little Words When you are gone, there is nor bloom nor leaf, Nor singing sea at night, nor silver birds; And I can only stare,…
- The two most beautiful words in the English language are 'cheque enclosed.'
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- The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. — Wystan Hugh Auden
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- The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or… — Teresa of Avila