Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
DOROTHY PARKERDrink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
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It was written without fear and without research.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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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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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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What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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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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