Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
DOROTHY PARKERI hate writing, I love having written.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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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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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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I don’t mind anything that’s written about me, as long as it’s not true.
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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.
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If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
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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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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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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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