Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
DOROTHY PARKERAnd I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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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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I don’t mind anything that’s written about me, as long as it’s not true.
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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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