Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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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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This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn’t touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
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[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that’s much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
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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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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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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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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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