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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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If I should labor through daylight and dark, Consecrate, valorous, serious, true, Then on the world I may blazon my mark And what if I don't, and what if I do?
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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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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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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.
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I'm not a writer with a drinking problem, I'm a drinker with a writing problem.
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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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[On Katharine Hepburn's stage performance:] She ran the whole gamut of emotions, from A to B.
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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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[On Kay Strozzi in The Silent Witness:] Miss Strozzi ... had the temerity to wear as truly horrible a gown as ever I have seen on the American stage. ... Had she not luckily been strangled by a member of the cast while disporting this garment, I should have fought my way to the stage and done her in, myself.
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[When asked what was the inspiration for most of her work:] Need of money, dear.
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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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I shudder at the thought of men.... I'm due to fall in love again
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[Epitaph:] Involved in a plot.
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But I don't give up I forget why not.
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My first love was Cinderella, but she ran off with another man.
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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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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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