Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
DOROTHY PARKERWhere unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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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.
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If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
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I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I’m under the table/After four I’m under my host.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
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If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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There’s life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
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The only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
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