Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
DOROTHY PARKERAll I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don’t catch horses going around looking like people, do you?
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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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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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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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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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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You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn’t touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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