Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
DOROTHY PARKERWriting is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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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There’s life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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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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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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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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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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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 have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.
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