His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
DOROTHY PARKERThe only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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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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The only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
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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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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
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Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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