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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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Eternity is a ham and two people.
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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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Woman wants monogamy Man delights in novelty. Love is woman's moon and sun Man has other forms of fun. Woman lives but in her lord Count to ten, and man is bored. With this the gist and sum of it, What earthly good can come of it?
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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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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[Requesting her epitaph to read this way:] Excuse my dust.
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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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(Scottish Terriers) have all the compactness of a small dog and all the valor of a big one. And they are so exceedingly sturdy that it is proverbial that the only thing fatal to them is being run over by an automobile - in which case the car itself knows it has been in a fight.
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And I'll stay off Verlaine too he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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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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The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.
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If I had a shiny gun I could have a world of fun Speeding bullets through the brains Of the folks that cause me pains :)
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.
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[Epitaph:] Involved in a plot.
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Money is only congealed snow.
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[On Kay Strozzi in The Silent Witness:] Miss Strozzi ... had the temerity to wear as truly horrible a gown as ever I have seen on the American stage. ... Had she not luckily been strangled by a member of the cast while disporting this garment, I should have fought my way to the stage and done her in, myself.
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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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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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