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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.
Dorothy Parker
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Dorothy Parker
Age: 73 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 22
Died: 1967
Died: June 7
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Oh, seek, my love, your newer way I'll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!
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... if this world were anything near what it should be there would be no more need of a Book Week than there would be a of a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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Sometimes I think I'll give up trying, and just go completely Russian and sit on a stove and moan all day.
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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[Requesting her epitaph to read this way:] Excuse my dust.
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Pictures pass me in long review,-- Marching columns of dead events. I was tender, and, often, true Ever a prey to coincidence. Always knew I the consequence Always saw what the end would be. We're as Nature has made us -- hence I loved them until they loved me.
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Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.
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I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.
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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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Money is only congealed snow.
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Where unwilling dies the rose buds the new another year.
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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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Innocence is a desirable thing, a dainty thing, an appealing thing, in its place but carried too far, it is merely ridiculous.
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I don't want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.
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It's not the tragedies that kill us it's the messes.
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