Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
DOROTHY PARKEROf Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I’ll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!
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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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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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If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I’m under the table/After four I’m under my host.
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A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
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There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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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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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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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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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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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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