I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
DOROTHY PARKERYou do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.
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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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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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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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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
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There’s life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
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This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn’t touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
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