You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.


Dorothy Parker

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You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think.
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Just because I cant fly, don't think you can keep me on the ground.
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If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.
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If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.
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I know you are a whore, but it makes no difference to me.
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i can win but you cant lose, this makes us all even in our ways.
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Depending on your culture, you can make physician which treats you feel himself like a veterinarian.
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You cant do better, be better or have better than you believe you can.
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You cant get around what he did to her, the fact that he plunged this six-inch knife into her chest,
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What you cant forget... God cant remember!
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You cant always have what you want but it's important to want what you have.
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You can lead a horse to water, but a jackass will drive you to drink.
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How can we ever have peace when we cant even make peace with the things we cant control.
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You are a furry gnome and we feed you too much! Dorothy to Sophia
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Anywhere you can lead your life, you can lead a good one.
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Ever step you take is forever. You cant make it go away. None of it. You understand what I'm sayin?
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You is getting nosier than a parker.
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I can lead you to the water but I can't let you drink.
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When you think you are ready you are not ready.
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So, you're the man who can't spell 'fuck.'"
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Never turn down a job because you think it's too small; you don't know where it can lead
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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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He can run. But he cant hide.
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This is the worst of it, the last resort. If you cant come here, you cant go anywhere.
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.... I was telling you... but you don't listen to me....
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You think you can make me like you again?”
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I don't think you can in any way export culture with guns or tanks.
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Dorothy scratched her dark head, yawning wide, and white feathers floated out of her hair.
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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts a...
DOROTHY PARKER
Some men break your heart in two,/ Some men fawn and flatter,/ Some men never look at you;/ And that...
DOROTHY PARKER
I can't write five words but that I change seven.
DOROTHY PARKER
I'd like to have money. And I'd like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope th...
DOROTHY PARKER
Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart.
DOROTHY PARKER
Authors and actors and artists and such - Never know nothing, and never know much
DOROTHY PARKER
You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think.
DOROTHY PARKER
It's a small apartment, I've barely enough room to lay my hat and a few friends.
DOROTHY PARKER
Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow.
DOROTHY PARKER
Excuse me, everybody, I have to go to the bathroom. I really have to telephone, but I'm too embarras...
DOROTHY PARKER
Somebody was using the pencil.
DOROTHY PARKER
That would be a good thing for them to carve on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it ...
DOROTHY PARKER
A list of authors who have made themselves most beloved and therefore, most comfortable financially,...
DOROTHY PARKER
I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be a darling at it.
DOROTHY PARKER
Byron and Shelley and Keats/ Were a trio of lyrical treats.
DOROTHY PARKER
That woman speaks eight languages and can't say no in any of them.
DOROTHY PARKER
"Cheque enclosed" are the two most beautiful words in the English language
DOROTHY PARKER
She looks as new as a peeled egg
DOROTHY PARKER
She looks like something that would eat its young
DOROTHY PARKER
I was fired from there, finally, for a lot of things, among them my insistence that the Immaculate C...
DOROTHY PARKER
By the time you swear you are his, shivering and sighing, And he vows his passion is infinite and un...
DOROTHY PARKER
Too fucking busy, and vice versa. [Reply to her editor who was bugging her for her belated work whil...
DOROTHY PARKER
They sicken of the calm, who know the storm
DOROTHY PARKER
People are more fun than any body
DOROTHY PARKER
I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be. And I know that ridicule...
DOROTHY PARKER
I suppose that now if I ever wrote a play about myself I'd be sued for plagiarism
DOROTHY PARKER
There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simp...
DOROTHY PARKER
Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
DOROTHY PARKER
Lips that taste of tears, they say/ Are the best for kissing.
DOROTHY PARKER
I wish I could drink like a lady / I can take one or two at the most / Three and I'm under the table...
DOROTHY PARKER
My land is bare of chattering folk; / the clouds are low along the ridges, / and sweet's the air wit...
DOROTHY PARKER
The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe!
DOROTHY PARKER
This is on me. [suggested for her tombstone]
DOROTHY PARKER
Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to exci...
DOROTHY PARKER
Money is only congealed snow.
DOROTHY PARKER
Why, that dog is practically a Phi Beta Kappa. She can sit up and beg, and she can give her paw -- I...
DOROTHY PARKER
I hate writing, I love having written.
DOROTHY PARKER