I don’t mind anything that’s written about me, as long as it’s not true.
DOROTHY PARKEROf Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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By the time you swear you’re his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this — One of you is lying.
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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
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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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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
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Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
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Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
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