If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
DOROTHY PARKERWhat ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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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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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 course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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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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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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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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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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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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