But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
DOROTHY PARKERWhere unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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It was written without fear and without research.
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Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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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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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don’t catch horses going around looking like people, do you?
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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 only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
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Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.
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