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The moon's turned black; For I love him, and He didn't love back


Dorothy Parker

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TESSA DARE I still love him. And here's the worst part. I want him back. - Ree
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AMBER I love him and he loves me.
KATHLEEN SPILLERS If you dont love somebody, it gets annoying if they tell you what to do or what to feel. When you lo...
DONALD MILLER The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what wa...
KHALED HOSSEINI Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common.
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BORIS JOHNSON Klugh is a great guitarist and I think people love him because of the way he plays. It's a laid-back...
JOE BRONSON I love him to hell and back and heaven and back, and have and do and will
SYLVIA PLATH They love him, gentlemen, and they respect him, not only for himself, but for his character, for hi...
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ZORAN RAJCIC I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES I love the color black. I wear a lot of black.
BEHATI PRINSLOO Whenever I attempted to sing of love, it turned to pain. And again, when I tried to sing of pain, it...
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I feel my dad, I still feel his love, and I still love him. I would do anything to have him back, bu...
GWYNETH PALTROW It's a physical sickness. Étienne. How much I love him.

I love Étienne.
STEPHANIE PERKINS We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
ZSA ZSA GABOR I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood.
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Geoff’s hand mad...
ANDREW GREY Jesus Christ wants to show His love for this world through us, Christians.
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NEIL GAIMAN He who defends with love will be secure; Heaven will save him, and protect him with love.
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BYRON SCOTT He shall never know how I love him
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MILAN KUNDERA When I wished to sing of love it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow it was transf...
FRANZ SCHUBERT When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was tran...
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ALLEN IVERSON I told him that I love him, that he was going to be in peace, that his mother was waiting for him,
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DON DUNN Black love is black wealth
NIKKI GIOVANNI I have this really morbid, awesome love for the movie 'Black Swan.'
SHERRI SAUM Some true love turned and not a false turned true.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love is black. Love is white. Love is brown. Love is humanity.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Love is like a black hole - when you get too close, there's no way back
SILJE AKSELBERG IVERSEN Love is when he is hungry and you feed him. Love is knowing when he is hungry.
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FRANK GRILLO I love him very much and this is very hard to go through, ... He has a young son so we still hold ou...
OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN I was sure I fell in love with him again like the usual. He did things that made me go back to him. ...
KIA AMAZONA I call out to him, 'Fester, my love,' and he answers me.
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BRYNN MYERS My grandpa didn't believe in hugging and kissing, or saying "I love you." His love had to do with th...
BILL COSBY He plants himself right there in front of Craig’s mother and says, “You need to love him. I don�...
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CATH CROWLEY He paused for a minute and I could feel him trembling. “I love you,” he whispered against my ski...
KRISTEN MIDDLETON He came along and I just fell in love with him. He's been a lot of company for me.
LYNN MORRIS But I love him."
"So love him."
"But I miss him."
"So miss him. Send him love and lig...
ELIZABETH GILBERT God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë Contrary to belief, I do the hitting, he doesn't. He has never put his hands on me. He is not a woma...
WHITNEY HOUSTON You were always saying you were gonna shoot him," he mutters, but it's kind of half-hearted. "Stupid...
RICHARD RIDER And I wondered if love was too weak a word for what he felt, what he’d done for me. For what I fel...
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AARON SHEA Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.
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STEPHANIE PERKINS I'm terrified that I will never be able to put him from my mind. I don't love him but I'm afraid tha...
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ANGEL JR. I love this horse, and I really love him in the Travers. He's fit and sound and eager. He's like a f...
ANGEL CORDERO JR. I love you!" he shouted, his eyes glowing laser green.
"I love you, okay? I'm not some hopeless...
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"Augustus,"I said.
"I am," he said. He was st...
JOHN GREEN Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman--a rope over an abyss.

A dan...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I trusted my teammate. Even though he didn't make the shot, I still love him. I loved playing for th...
KADERO TERRELL I now realize what Dorothy means in the final scene from The Wizard of Oz, when she says that if you...
JODEE BLANCO I love swimming"
"I know," I said.
"I love swimming," he said again. He was quiet for a li...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ I think they turned their back on him too quickly and too easily.
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JUDD BURSTEIN When you love someone as much as that, you don't believe they can die. You think your love protects ...
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Shivering and sighing.
And he vows his passion is,
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But I shall stay the way I...
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Idleness, sorrow, a friend...
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There's little in water or wine
This living, this livin...
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To do my best to please.
And change, with every passing lad<...
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DOROTHY PARKER I never thought that heav'n would lose its blue
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DOROTHY PARKER They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.
DOROTHY PARKER Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
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Houses of marble, and billowing farms,
Pearls, to trickle ...
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Shivering and sighing,
And he vows his passion is
Infi...
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DOROTHY PARKER They laid their hands upon my head,
They stroked my cheek and brow;
And time could heal a hu...
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DOROTHY PARKER Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.
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DOROTHY PARKER Gratitude -- the meanest and most sniveling attribute in the world.
DOROTHY PARKER I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
DOROTHY PARKER Where's the man could ease a heart, like a satin gown?
DOROTHY PARKER Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
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Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
Four be the th...
DOROTHY PARKER I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three I'm under the table,
After four...
DOROTHY PARKER Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.
DOROTHY PARKER Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (B...
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DOROTHY PARKER He Robert Benchley and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.
DOROTHY PARKER And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned; The calmer, I, to see it tru...
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DOROTHY PARKER Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.
DOROTHY PARKER He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.
DOROTHY PARKER Her mind lives tidily, apart From cold and noise and pain, And bolts the door against her heart, Out...
DOROTHY PARKER His voice was intimate as the rustle of sheets.
DOROTHY PARKER Sorrow is tranquillity remembered in emotion.
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DOROTHY PARKER Men don't like nobility in woman. Not any men. I suppose it is because the men like to have the cop...
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DOROTHY PARKER Scratch a lover, and find a foe.
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DOROTHY PARKER Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never ...
DOROTHY PARKER Misfortune tests friends, and detects enemies
DOROTHY PARKER Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded
wheelchair.
DOROTHY PARKER Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
DOROTHY PARKER Men seldom make passes At girls who wear glasses.
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DOROTHY PARKER I never see that prettiest thing-
A cherry bough gone white with Spring-
But what I think,...
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Razors pain you,
Rivers are damp,
Acids stain you,
And drugs cau...
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DOROTHY PARKER The only "ism" Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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DOROTHY PARKER The affair between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith will live as one of the prettiest love stories ...
DOROTHY PARKER My land is bare of chattering folk;
the clouds are low along the ridges,
and sweet's the air...
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DOROTHY PARKER Ducking for apples - change one letter and it's the story of my life.
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DOROTHY PARKER Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is thing that can n...
DOROTHY PARKER Scratch an actor - and you'll find an actress.
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A kiss, a frock, a rhyme -
I never said they feed my heart, DOROTHY PARKER Men seldom make passes
At girls who wear glasses.
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DOROTHY PARKER If wild my breast and sore my pride,
I bask in dreams of suicide,
If cool my heart and high ...
DOROTHY PARKER If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised.
DOROTHY PARKER I've never been a millionaire but I just know I'd be darling at it.
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DOROTHY PARKER I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true.
DOROTHY PARKER A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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DOROTHY PARKER Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can...
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DOROTHY PARKER I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three I'm under the table,
afte...
DOROTHY PARKER The two most beautiful words in the English language are: Check Enclosed.
DOROTHY PARKER If, with the literate, I am/ Impelled to try an epigram,/ I never seek to take the credit;/ We all a...
DOROTHY PARKER Q: What's the difference between an enzyme and a hormone?

A: You can't hear an enzyme.
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DOROTHY PARKER I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
DOROTHY PARKER This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it."
DOROTHY PARKER Tell him I was too fucking busy-- or vice versa.
DOROTHY PARKER Don't look at me in that tone of voice.
DOROTHY PARKER tomorrow's gone-we'll have tonight!
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DOROTHY PARKER Excuse my dust
DOROTHY PARKER Check enclosed.
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The safer, I, for all I learned.
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Painter or plumber or never-do-well,
Do me a favor and ...
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DOROTHY PARKER The doctors were very brave about it.
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DOROTHY PARKER This is on me.
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DOROTHY PARKER I can't write five words but that I change seven.
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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...
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