By the time you swear you’re his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this — One of you is lying.
DOROTHY PARKERHeterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
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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 can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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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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If 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.
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If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
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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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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
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