I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
DOROTHY PARKERI don’t mind anything that’s written about me, as long as it’s not true.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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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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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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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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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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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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If 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.
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Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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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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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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