I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
DOROTHY PARKERWriting well is the best revenge.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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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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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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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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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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