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Dorothy Parker
Age: 73 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 22
Died: 1967
Died: June 7
Columnist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Poet
Screenwriter
Songwriter
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West End
Monmouth County
New Jersey
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I shudder at the thought of men.... I'm due to fall in love again
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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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I was the toast of two continents: Greenland and Australia.
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Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.
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Why, after all, should readers never be harrowed? Surely there is enough happiness in life without having to go to books for it.
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Ah, clear they see and true they say That one shall weep, and one shall stray
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Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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Woman wants monogamy Man delights in novelty. Love is woman's moon and sun Man has other forms of fun. Woman lives but in her lord Count to ten, and man is bored. With this the gist and sum of it, What earthly good can come of it?
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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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She was pleased to have him come and never sorry to see him go.
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If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
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[To the British actor who annoyed her by repeated references to his busy 'shedule':] I think you're full of skit.
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Friends come and go but I wouldn't have thought you'd be one of them
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A list of authors who have made themselves most beloved and therefore, most comfortable financially, shows that it is our national joy to mistake for the first-rate, the fecund rate.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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[On hearing that President Coolidge was dead:] How can you tell?
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Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn.
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I wish, I wish I were a poisonous bacterium.
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all men are the same age.
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