Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
DOROTHY PARKERIf I didn’t care for fun and such, I’d probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.
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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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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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It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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The writer’s way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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