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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
Dorothy Parker
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Dorothy Parker
Age: 73 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 22
Died: 1967
Died: June 7
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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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London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful.
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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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My own dear love, he is strong and bold And he cares not what comes after. His words ring sweet as a chime of gold, And his eyes are lit with laughter. He is jubilant as a flag unfurled - Oh, a girl, she'd not forget him. My own dear love, he is all my world - And I wish I'd never met him.
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Hollywood is one place in the world where you can die of encouragement.
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How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid I've lost the knack. I might try busting myself smartly over the temple with the night-light. I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound if I can remember any of the damn things.
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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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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[When asked what was the inspiration for most of her work:] Need of money, dear.
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If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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all men are the same age.
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What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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[Epitaph:] Involved in a plot.
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When I was young and bold and strong, The right was right, the wrong was wrong. With plume on high and flag unfurled, I rode away to right the world. But now I’m old - and good and bad, Are woven in a crazy plaid. I sit and say the world is so, And wise is s/he who lets it go.
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I wish, I wish I were a poisonous bacterium.
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[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that's much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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