Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
DOROTHY PARKEROf Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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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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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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I’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money.
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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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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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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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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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