I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
DOROTHY PARKERIf I didn’t care for fun and such, I’d probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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It was written without fear and without research.
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Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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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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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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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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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
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Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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