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His books are exciting and powerful and — if I may filch the word from the booksy ones — pulsing.
Dorothy Parker
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Dorothy Parker
Age: 73 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 22
Died: 1967
Died: June 7
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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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I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
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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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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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[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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I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
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Why is it no one sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get one perfect rose.
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Hollywood is one place in the world where you can die of encouragement.
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[Completely bored by a country weekend, wiring to a friend:] For heaven's sake, rush me a loaf of bread, enclosing saw and file.
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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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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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Just begin a story with such a phrase as 'I remember Disraeli - poor old Dizz! - once saying to me, in answer to my poke in the eye,' and you will find me and Morpheus off in a corner, necking.
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[On hearing that President Coolidge was dead:] How can you tell?
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Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.
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tomorrow's gone-we'll have tonight!
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Women and elephants never forget.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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I like to have a martini/Two at the very most.
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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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