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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
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Once, when I was young and true. Someone left me sad - Broke my brittle heart in two And that is very bad. Love is for unlucky folk, Love is but a curse. Once there was a heart I broke And that, I think, is worse.
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I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.
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The nowadays ruling that no word is unprintable has, I think, done nothing whatever for beautiful letters. ... Obscenity is too valuable a commodity to chuck around all over the place it should be taken out of the safe on special occasions only.
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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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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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[Hospitalized and pressing the nurse's button before dictating letters to her secretary:] This should assure us of at least forty-five minutes of undisturbed privacy.
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I like to think of my shining tombstone. It gives me, as you might say, something to live for.
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One more drink and I'd have been under the host.
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[Epitaph:] Involved in a plot.
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all men are the same age.
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[On an actor who'd broken her leg in London:] Oh, how terrible. She must have done it sliding down a barrister.
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[When asked what was the inspiration for most of her work:] Need of money, dear.
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It's not the tragedies that kill us it's the messes.
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Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn.
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I like to have a martini/Two at the very most.
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Be you wise and never sad, You will get your lovely lad. Never serious be, nor true, And your wish will come to you-- And if that makes you happy, kid, You'll be the first it ever did.
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