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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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There was always something immensely comic to her in the thought of living elsewhere than New York. She could not regard as serious proposals that she share a western residence.
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Scratch a king and find a fool!
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Art is a form of catharsis emotional release, purging, cleansing, purifying.
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If you don't have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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[Requesting her epitaph to read this way:] Excuse my dust.
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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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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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Perhaps it suddenly brought to us the sense of change. Or irresponsibility. But don't forget that, though the people in the twenties seemed like flops, they weren't. Fitzgerald, the rest of them, reckless as they were, drinkers as they were, they worked damn hard and all the time.
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The writer's way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?
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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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On being told of the death of former President Calvin Coolidge: How could they tell?
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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Of Orson Welles: It's like meeting God without dying.
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The nowadays ruling that no word is unprintable has, I think, done nothing whatever for beautiful letters. The boys have gone hog-wild with liberty, yet the short flat terms used over and over, both in dialogue and narrative, add neither vigor nor clarity the effect is not of shock but of something far more dangerous — tedium.
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My land is bare of chattering folk / the clouds are low along the ridges, / and sweet's the air with curly smoke / from all my burning bridges.
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I like to have a martini/Two at the very most.
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[On being told their loquacious, domineering host was 'outspoken':] By whom?
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I fell into writing, I suppose, being one of those awful children who wrote verses. I went to a convent in New York-the Blessed Sacrament... I was fired from there, finally, for a lot of things, among them my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was spontaneous combustion.
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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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[On James Gould Cozzens' By Love Possessed:] It is a vast enterprise encompassing all sorts of love, except, naturally, those branches which extend to Jews, Negroes, and people who have lost track of their great-grandparents.
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