Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
DOROTHY PARKERIt’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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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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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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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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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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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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If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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