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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.
Dorothy Parker
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Dorothy Parker
Age: 73 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 22
Died: 1967
Died: June 7
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The sun's gone dim, and the moon's gone black. For I loved him, and he didn't love back.
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Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!
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I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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Mrs. Ewing was a short woman who accepted the obligation borne by so many short women to make up in vivacity what they lack in number of inches from the ground.
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Like many a better one before me, I have gone down under the force of numbers, under the books and books and books that keep coming out and coming out and coming out, shoals of them, spates of them, flash floods of them, too blame many books, and no sign of an end.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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One more drink and I'd have been under the host.
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[Hospitalized and pressing the nurse's button before dictating letters to her secretary:] This should assure us of at least forty-five minutes of undisturbed privacy.
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Hollywood is one place in the world where you can die of encouragement.
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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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Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
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Scratch a king and find a fool!
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It's not the tragedies that kill us it's the messes.
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I was the toast of two continents: Greenland and Australia.
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Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey The horse doth with the horseman away.
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She will never win him, whose words had shown she feared to lose.
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And I'll stay off Verlaine too he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful.
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