I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
DOROTHY PARKERIf you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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By the time you swear you’re his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this — One of you is lying.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
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Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.
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Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I’ll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
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I’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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