Quotes about Dorothy

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Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common. — Dorothy Parker
MenThey hail you as their morning starBecause you are the way you are.If you return the sentiment,They'll try to make yo — Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker
Staring at a world too horrible to comprehend, believing -- by dint of ignorance and innocence -- that beneath this unbe — Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
...what happens when you returnand find nothingbut a hollowed shell,shingles and floor,walls and echoesand the light tha — Kellie Elmore, Magic in the Backyard
My love runs by like a day in June, And he makes no friends of sorrows. He'll tread his galloping rigadoon In the pathwa — Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker
If a free people is going to be reproduced, it will require watering and revivifying and owning anew older traditions an — Ben Sasse, The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis—and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance
Tremendous beauty and tremendous ugliness puts you on the outside of things. — Peter Bogdanovich
I fell into the water with a large splash and sunk like a stone. My feet guided the way as I drifted further into the mu — Brynn Myers, Falling Out of Focus
It was the yearning she related to. Shriver seemed to understand the specific human pain of wanting and pushing away at — Ellen Meister, Dorothy Parker Drank Here
Unlike your mother," she said, exhaling, "I told the culprit immediately. I thought at the very least he would visit me — Ellen Meister, Dorothy Parker Drank Here
To learn six subjects without remembering how they were learnt does nothing to ease the approach to a seventh — to have learnt and remembered the art of learning makes the approach to every subject an open door.
MEDITATION ON THE BUS. Rainy and cold. Thinking gloomily of the sins and shortcomings of others, it suddenly came to me — Dorothy Day, The Reckless Way of Love: Notes on Following Jesus
She had been so vulnerable, and Norah wanted only to protect her. But that vulnerability was tied to a massive mistake, — Ellen Meister, Dorothy Parker Drank Here
My soul hath thirsted after the strong living God; when shall I come and appear before the face of God?' (Psalm 42:2) Bu — Dorothy Day, The Reckless Way of Love: Notes on Following Jesus
The vital power of an imaginative work demands a diversity within its unity — and the stronger the diversity the more massive the unity.
Perhaps [the critics are right and] the drama is played out now and Jesus is safely dead and buried. Perhaps. It is iron — Dorothy L. Sayers, The Whimsical Christian: 18 Essays
The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to — surely one can only write the book that is there to be written.
A Very Short Song Once, when I was young and true, Someone left me sad- Broke my brittle heart in two; And that is very — Dorothy Parker, The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. — Sid Ziff
When we are asked to show our love for God, our desire for him, when he asks us as Jesus asked Peter, 'Lovest thou me?' — Dorothy Day, The Reckless Way of Love: Notes on Following Jesus