Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
DOROTHY PARKERYou can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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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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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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