I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
DOROTHY PARKERTake me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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Writing well is the best revenge.
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If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.
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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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The only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
DOROTHY PARKER