[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
DOROTHY PARKERConstant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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There’s life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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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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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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It was written without fear and without research.
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Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I’ll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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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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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
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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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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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