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Dorothy Parker
Age: 73 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 22
Died: 1967
Died: June 7
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Monmouth County
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This play John Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln holds the season's record, thus far, with a run of four evening performances and one matinee. By an odd coincidence, it ran just five performances too many.
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Said of her husband on the day their divorce became final: Oh, don't worry about Alan. . . . Alan will always land on somebody's feet.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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Flowers are heaven's masterpiece.
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Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
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Writing well is the best revenge.
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Once, when I was young and true. Someone left me sad - Broke my brittle heart in two And that is very bad. Love is for unlucky folk, Love is but a curse. Once there was a heart I broke And that, I think, is worse.
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Prince or commoner, tenor or bass, Painter or plumber or never-do-well, Do me a favor and shut your face - Poets alone should kiss and tell.
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I shudder at the thought of men.... I'm due to fall in love again
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Ah, clear they see and true they say That one shall weep, and one shall stray
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I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be. And I know that ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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Now, look, baby, 'Union' is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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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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If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the fact that it's the best you can do that kills you.
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We were all imitative. We all wandered in after Miss Edna St. Vincent Millay. We were all being dashing and gallant, declaring we weren't virgins, whether we were or not.
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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