Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
DOROTHY PARKERDon’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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There’s life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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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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It was written without fear and without research.
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Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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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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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any 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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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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