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.
DOROTHY PARKERI know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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The only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
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Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie.
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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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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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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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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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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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Writing well is the best revenge.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
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