It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
DOROTHY PARKEROf Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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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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You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
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The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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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 was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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It was written without fear and without research.
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Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!
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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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