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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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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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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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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That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.
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