“I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.”
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
Source: Collected Stories
“I do know that girls in their early twenties are easy and sweet. (Girls in their late twenties are easier but sad, and that isn't so sweet.) They are easy, I think, because they are sweet, and they are sweet, I think, because they are dumb.”
— Joseph Heller, book Something Happened
Something Happened (1974)
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Source: The Portable Dorothy Parker
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Jack, Act I
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