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She was pleased to have him come and never sorry to see him go.
Dorothy Parker
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Dorothy Parker
Age: 73 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 22
Died: 1967
Died: June 7
Columnist
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Monmouth County
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Dot Rothschild
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I won't telephone him. I'll never telephone him again as long as I live. He'll rot in hell, before I'll call him up. You don't have to give me strength, God I have it myself. If he wanted me, he could get me. He knows where I am. He knows I'm waiting here. He's so sure of me, so sure. I wonder why they hate you, as soon as they are sure of you.
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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 the toast of two continents: Greenland and Australia.
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There was nothing separate about her days. Like drops on the window-pane, they ran together and trickled away.
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The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.
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And where does she find them?
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We were all imitative. We all wandered in after Miss Edna St. Vincent Millay. We were all being dashing and gallant, declaring we weren't virgins, whether we were or not.
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All those writers who write about their own childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me.
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Her big heart did not, as is so sadly often the case, inhabit a big bosom.
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What writes worse than a Theodore Dreiser? ... Two Theodore Dreisers.
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Newton's Fourth Law: Every action has an equal and opposite satisfaction.
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