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Dorothy Parker
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Dorothy Parker
Age: 73 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 22
Died: 1967
Died: June 7
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But I don't give up I forget why not.
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[When asked what was the inspiration for most of her work:] Need of money, dear.
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Oh, both my shoes are shiny new, And pristine is my hat My dress is 1922… My life is all like that.
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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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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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And where does she find them?
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[On Lou Tellegen's Women Have Been Kind:] The book ... has all the elegance of a quirked little finger and all the glitter of a pair of new rubbers.
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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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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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Hell's afloat in lover's tears.
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The affair between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature.
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When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken.
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The nowadays ruling that no word is unprintable has, I think, done nothing whatever for beautiful letters. ... Obscenity is too valuable a commodity to chuck around all over the place it should be taken out of the safe on special occasions only.
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The Swiss are a neat and an industrious people, none of whom is under seventy-five years of age.
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I like to think of my shining tombstone. It gives me, as you might say, something to live for.
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Gratitude - the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world.
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The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
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Ah, clear they see and true they say That one shall weep, and one shall stray
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[On Katharine Hepburn's stage performance:] She ran the whole gamut of emotions, from A to B.
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She can sit up and beg, and she can give her paw — I don't say she will, but she can.
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