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I hate writing, I love having written.
Dorothy Parker
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Dorothy Parker
Age: 73 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 22
Died: 1967
Died: June 7
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Monmouth County
New Jersey
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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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There was a reason for the cost of those perfectly plain black dresses.
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Oh, seek, my love, your newer way I'll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!
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How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid I've lost the knack. I might try busting myself smartly over the temple with the night-light. I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound if I can remember any of the damn things.
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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, a medley of extemporanea, And love is a thing that can never go wrong, and I am Marie of Romania.
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Oh, both my shoes are shiny new, And pristine is my hat My dress is 1922… My life is all like that.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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Some men break your heart in two, Some men fawn and flatter, Some men never look at you And that cleans up the matter.
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I was the toast of two continents: Greenland and Australia.
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There must be courage there must be no awe. There must be criticism, for humor, to my mind, is encapsulated in criticism. There must be a disciplined eye and a wild mind...There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about it.
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What writes worse than a Theodore Dreiser? ... Two Theodore Dreisers.
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The writer's way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?
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I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
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I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I'm under the table/After four I'm under my host.
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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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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the fact that it's the best you can do that kills you.
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