Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
DOROTHY PARKERDucking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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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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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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I’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money.
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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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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