I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
DOROTHY PARKERWhere unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
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I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I’m under the table/After four I’m under my host.
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You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
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I don’t mind anything that’s written about me, as long as it’s not true.
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There’s life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
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