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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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[From a window in the Writer's Building at MGM, which overlooked a cemetery:] Hello down there. It might interest you to know that up here we are just as dead as you are.
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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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But I give you my word, in the entire book there is nothing that cannot be said aloud in mixed company. And there is, also, nothing that makes you a bit the wiser. I wonder--oh, what will you think of me--if those two statements do not verge upon the synonymous.
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Where's the man could ease a heart Like a satin gown?
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There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
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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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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.
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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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At birth the Devil touched my tongue.
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When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken.
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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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One more drink and I'd have been under the host.
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I know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sake of a great work. But this is no great work, you see.
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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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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
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Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.
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... if this world were anything near what it should be there would be no more need of a Book Week than there would be a of a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
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I shudder at the thought of men.... I'm due to fall in love again
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His books are exciting and powerful and — if I may filch the word from the booksy ones — pulsing.
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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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