163 ordspråk av Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker
Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful. So you might as well live.
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He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.
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He has a capacity for enjoyment so vast that he gives away great chunks to those about him, and never even misses them. . . . He can take you to a bicycle race and make it raise your hair.
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Her mind lives tidily, apart/ From cold and noise and pain,/ And bolts the door against her heart,/ Out wailing in the rain.
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Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common
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His ignorance was an Empire State Building of ignorance. You had to admire it for its size.
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.
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Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow.
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How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid I've lost the knack. I might try busting myself smartly over the temple with the nightlight. I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember
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I am never going to be famous...I do not do anything. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that anymore.
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I can't talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it's a horror to look back on. I can't imagine how I did it. When I got away from it I couldn't even refer to the place by name. ''Out there,'' I called it.
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I can't write five words but that I change seven.
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I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
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I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be a darling at it.
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