Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
DOROTHY PARKERDucking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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Writing well is the best revenge.
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The Monte Carlo casino refused to admit me until I was properly dressed so I went and found my stockings, and then came back and lost my shirt.
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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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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The only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
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I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I’m under the table/After four I’m under my host.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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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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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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