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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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
Dot Rothschild
Dottie Rothschild
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Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.
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ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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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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There was always something immensely comic to her in the thought of living elsewhere than New York. She could not regard as serious proposals that she share a western residence.
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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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Where's the man could ease a heart Like a satin gown?
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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There must be courage there must be no awe. There must be criticism, for humor, to my mind, is encapsulated in criticism. There must be a disciplined eye and a wild mind...There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about it.
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Newton's Fourth Law: Every action has an equal and opposite satisfaction.
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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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Flowers are heaven's masterpiece.
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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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On lady novelists: As artists they're rot, but as providers they're oil wells they gush. Norris said she never wrote a story unless it was fun to do. I understand Ferber whistles at her typewriter.
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All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don't catch horses going around looking like people, do you?
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[On James Gould Cozzens' By Love Possessed:] It is a vast enterprise encompassing all sorts of love, except, naturally, those branches which extend to Jews, Negroes, and people who have lost track of their great-grandparents.
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London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful.
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When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken.
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Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn.
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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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