Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
DOROTHY PARKEROh, seek, my love, your newer way; I’ll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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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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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
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Writing well is the best revenge.
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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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Women and elephants never forget.
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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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If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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