Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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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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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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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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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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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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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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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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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
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