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"Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work."
-- Clive Barker

"There is a fine line between 'hobby' and 'mental illness'."
-- Dave Barry

"It's a small apartment, I've barely enough room to lay my hat and a few friends."
-- Dorothy Parker

Hell's afloat in lovers' tears.
-- Dorothy Parker

Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
-- Dorothy Parker

"Jacob Sullum has produced a thoughtful, sane, and logical analysis of our drug laws. Is that even legal?"
-- Dave Barry

You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.
-- Dorothy Parker

"Tell him I've been too fucking busy - or vice versa."
-- Dorothy Parker

The only ism Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
-- Dorothy Parker

His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
-- Dorothy Parker

"You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think."
-- Dorothy Parker

"Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in a darkened room using only your teeth."
-- Dave Barry

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
-- Dorothy Parker

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

Live long enough to be a problem to your kids.

They sicken of the calm that know the storm.
-- Dorothy Parker ('Fair Weather,' Sunset Gun, 1928)

When I heated my home with oil, I used an average of 800 gallons a year. I have found that I can keep comfortably warm for an entire winter with slightly over half that quantity of beer.
-- Dave Barry

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker

The best audience is one that is intelligent, well-educated -- and a little drunk.
-- Alben W. Barkley

Men seldom make passes
At girls who wear glasses.

-- Dorothy Parker (Not So Deep as a Well (1937), "News Item")

This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with RAISINS in it.
-- Dorothy Parker

If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker