Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
DOROTHY PARKERDucking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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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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Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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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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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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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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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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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that’s much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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