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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
Columnist
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West End
Monmouth County
New Jersey
Dorothy Rothschild
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Flowers are heaven's masterpiece.
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Dear Mary: We all knew you had it in you.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.
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[When asked what was the inspiration for most of her work:] Need of money, dear.
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I regret to say that during the first act of this, I fell so soundly asleep that the gentleman who brought me piled up a barricade of overcoat, hat, stick, and gloves between us to establish a separation in the eyes of the world, and went into an impersonation of A Young Man Who Has Come to the Theater Unaccompanied.
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I give her sadness and the gift of pain, a new moon madness and a love of rain.
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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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People are more than fun than anybody.
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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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The affair between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature.
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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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Don't look at me in that tone of voice.
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[On being told their loquacious, domineering host was 'outspoken':] By whom?
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[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that's much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted.
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Just begin a story with such a phrase as 'I remember Disraeli - poor old Dizz! - once saying to me, in answer to my poke in the eye,' and you will find me and Morpheus off in a corner, necking.
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