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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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Dorothy Parker
Age: 73 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 22
Died: 1967
Died: June 7
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Journalist
Literary Critic
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Monmouth County
New Jersey
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Prince or commoner, tenor or bass, Painter or plumber or never-do-well, Do me a favor and shut your face - Poets alone should kiss and tell.
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Said of her husband on the day their divorce became final: Oh, don't worry about Alan. . . . Alan will always land on somebody's feet.
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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Despite his persecutions, Mr. [Upton] Sinclair reveals himself in Money Writes! to be an enviable man. Always the thing he desires to believe is the thing he feels he knows to be true.
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My first love was Cinderella, but she ran off with another man.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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[At the reception following her remarriage to Alan Campbell:] People who haven't talked to each other in years are on speaking terms again today - including the bride and groom.
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Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
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The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
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Writing well is the best revenge.
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But I don't give up I forget why not.
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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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Eternity is a ham and two people.
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On being told of the death of former President Calvin Coolidge: How could they tell?
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...as for helping me in the outside world, the Convent taught me only that if you spit on a pencil eraser, it will erase ink.
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Then she told herself to stop her nonsense. If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them, more easily each time, so easily, soon, that you did not even realize you had gone out searching. Women alone often developed into experts at the practice. She must never join their dismal league.
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And where does she find them?
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[Completely bored by a country weekend, wiring to a friend:] For heaven's sake, rush me a loaf of bread, enclosing saw and file.
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One more drink and I'd have been under the host.
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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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