Circumstances Quote by Dorothy Parker

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“Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.”

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Hollywood is the one place on earth where you could die of encouragement.

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Sometimes I think Ill give up trying, and just go completely Russian and sit on a stove and moan all day.

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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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Now to me, Edith looks like something that would eat her young.

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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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The sun's gone dim, and the moon's gone black. For I loved him, and he didn't love back.

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There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I…

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Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

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Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance.

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The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing.

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