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If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they're happy.

— Dorothy Parker

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There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.

I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things.

Men seldom make passes
At girls who wear glasses.

Enough Rope (1926)

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say No in any of them.

Our Mrs Parker (1934)

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