Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
DOROTHY PARKEROf Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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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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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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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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By the time you swear you’re his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this — One of you is lying.
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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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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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The writer’s way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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