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Mrs. Ewing was a short woman who accepted the obligation borne by so many short women to make up in vivacity what they lack in number of inches from the ground.
Dorothy Parker
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Dorothy Parker
Age: 73 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 22
Died: 1967
Died: June 7
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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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Age before beauty, and pearls before swine.
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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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Flowers are heaven's masterpiece.
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Sometimes I think I'll give up trying, and just go completely Russian and sit on a stove and moan all day.
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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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