People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
DOROTHY PARKERHeterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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I hate writing, I love having written.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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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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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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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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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
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I’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don’t catch horses going around looking like people, do you?
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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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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