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Where's the man could ease a heart Like a satin gown?
Dorothy Parker
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Dorothy Parker
Age: 73 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 22
Died: 1967
Died: June 7
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What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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She will never win him, whose words had shown she feared to lose.
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Hollywood is one place in the world where you can die of encouragement.
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[Requesting her epitaph to read this way:] Excuse my dust.
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Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
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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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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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What writes worse than a Theodore Dreiser? ... Two Theodore Dreisers.
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If wild my breast and sore my pride, I bask in dreams of suicide, If cool my heart and high my head I think 'How lucky are the dead.
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Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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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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There was nothing separate about her days. Like drops on the window-pane, they ran together and trickled away.
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Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
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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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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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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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[When asked what was the inspiration for most of her work:] Need of money, dear.
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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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[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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