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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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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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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 like to have a martini/Two at the very most.
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I won't telephone him. I'll never telephone him again as long as I live. He'll rot in hell, before I'll call him up. You don't have to give me strength, God I have it myself. If he wanted me, he could get me. He knows where I am. He knows I'm waiting here. He's so sure of me, so sure. I wonder why they hate you, as soon as they are sure of you.
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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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They say of me, and so they should, It's doubtful if I come to good. I see acquaintances and friends Accumulating dividends And making enviable names In science, art and parlor games. But I, despite expert advice, Keep doing things I think are nice, And though to good I never come Inseparable my nose and thumb.
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There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about it.
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Of Orson Welles: It's like meeting God without dying.
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Flowers are heaven's masterpiece.
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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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She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.
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Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey The horse doth with the horseman away.
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If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the fact that it's the best you can do that kills you.
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Some men break your heart in two, Some men fawn and flatter, Some men never look at you And that cleans up the matter.
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I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I'm under the table/After four I'm under my host.
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Hollywood is one place in the world where you can die of encouragement.
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Despite his persecutions, Mr. [Upton] Sinclair reveals himself in Money Writes! to be an enviable man. Always the thing he desires to believe is the thing he feels he knows to be true.
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
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[To the British actor who annoyed her by repeated references to his busy 'shedule':] I think you're full of skit.
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