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Away Quotes by Dorothy Parker
- Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey;…
- 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…
- There was nothing separate about her days. Like drops on the window-pane, they ran together and trickled away.
- Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
- When I was young and bold and strong, The right was right, the wrong was wrong. With plume on high and flag unfurled, I rode…
- I know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sake of a great work. But…
- Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.
More Away Quotes
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
- The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters. — Mary Astell
- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more… — Chinua Achebe
- Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing… — Chinua Achebe
- We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups. — Margaret Atwood
- I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader.… — Margaret Atwood
- I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right… — Margaret Atwood
- If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight… — Marcus Aurelius
- The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away. — Marcus Aurelius