Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
DOROTHY PARKERYears are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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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 only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that’s much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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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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I hate writing, I love having written.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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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 only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
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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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Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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