There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
DOROTHY PARKEROf Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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If I didn’t care for fun and such, I’d probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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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’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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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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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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