I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
DOROTHY PARKEROf Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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I’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money.
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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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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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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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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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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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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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
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