If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
DOROTHY PARKEROf Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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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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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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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 was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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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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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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I’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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