That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
DOROTHY PARKERThat woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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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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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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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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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
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If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.
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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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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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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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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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