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If I didn't care for fun and such, I'd probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.

If I didn't care for fun and such, I'd probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.

Dorothy Parker
Fun, Failure, Giving
"Enough Rope". Book by Dorothy Parker, 1926.

I won't telephone him. I'll never telephone him again as long as I live. He'll rot in hell, before I'll call him up. You don't have to give me strength, God; I have it myself. If he wanted me, he could get me. He knows where I am. He knows I'm waiting here. He's so sure of me, so sure. I wonder why they hate you, as soon as they are sure of you.

Dorothy Parker
Relationship, Hate, Giving
Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.80, Penguin

I like to think of my shining tombstone. It gives me, as you might say, something to live for.

Dorothy Parker
Tombstone, Thinking, Giving

She can sit up and beg, and she can give her paw — I don't say she will, but she can.

Dorothy Parker
Giving, Paws
Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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