Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
DOROTHY PARKERThey tire of quiet, that have known the storm
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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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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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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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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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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The Monte Carlo casino refused to admit me until I was properly dressed so I went and found my stockings, and then came back and lost my shirt.
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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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