Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
DOROTHY PARKERHeterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I’ll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!
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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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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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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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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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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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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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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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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any 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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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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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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