Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
DOROTHY PARKERI was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
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If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
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The writer’s way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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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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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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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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