Barbara Williams
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“Trapped like a trap in a trap”
― The Portable Dorothy Parker
― The Portable Dorothy Parker
“I'll be the way I was when I first met him. Then maybe he'll like me again. I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.”
― The Portable Dorothy Parker
― The Portable Dorothy Parker
“Three be the things I shall never attain:
Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.”
― The Portable Dorothy Parker
Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.”
― The Portable Dorothy Parker
“It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes.”
― The Portable Dorothy Parker
― The Portable Dorothy Parker
“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.”
― The Portable Dorothy Parker
― The Portable Dorothy Parker
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