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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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Monmouth County
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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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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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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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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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She will never win him, whose words had shown she feared to lose.
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If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
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all men are the same age.
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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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She can sit up and beg, and she can give her paw — I don't say she will, but she can.
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[On hearing that President Coolidge was dead:] How can you tell?
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If I should labor through daylight and dark, Consecrate, valorous, serious, true, Then on the world I may blazon my mark And what if I don't, and what if I do?
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Accursed from their birth they be Who seek to find monogamy, Pursuing it from bed to bed— I think they would be better dead.
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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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It costs me never a stab nor squirm / To tread by chance upon a worm. / Aha, my little dear, / I say, Your clan will pay me back one day.
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If I don't drive around the park, I'm pretty sure to make my mark. If I'm in bed each night by ten, I may get back my looks again. If I abstain from fun and such, I'll probably amount to much But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.
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Why, after all, should readers never be harrowed? Surely there is enough happiness in life without having to go to books for it.
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There was a reason for the cost of those perfectly plain black dresses.
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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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There are times when images blow to fluff, and comparisons stiffen and shrivel.
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