Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
DOROTHY PARKERIf you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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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 hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.
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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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