The only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
DOROTHY PARKERThat would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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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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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
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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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There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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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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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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I’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money.
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