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There are times when images blow to fluff, and comparisons stiffen and shrivel.
Dorothy Parker
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Dorothy Parker
Age: 73 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 22
Died: 1967
Died: June 7
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West End
Monmouth County
New Jersey
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There must be courage there must be no awe. There must be criticism, for humor, to my mind, is encapsulated in criticism. There must be a disciplined eye and a wild mind...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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Hollywood is one place in the world where you can die of encouragement.
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[On William Lyon Phelps's Happiness:] It is second only to a rubber duck as the ideal bathtub companion. It may be held in the hand without causing muscular fatigue ... and it may be read through before the water has cooled. And if it slips down the drain pipe, all right, it slips down the drain pipe.
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I misremember who first was cruel enough to nurture the cocktail party into life. But perhaps it would be not too much to say, in fact it would be not enough to say, that it was not worth the trouble.
Dorothy Parker
The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
Dorothy Parker
On being told of the death of former President Calvin Coolidge: How could they tell?
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...as for helping me in the outside world, the Convent taught me only that if you spit on a pencil eraser, it will erase ink.
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The sun's gone dim, and the moon's gone black. For I loved him, and he didn't love back.
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Hell's afloat in lover's tears.
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She will never win him, whose words had shown she feared to lose.
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Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.
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She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song
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I know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sake of a great work. But this is no great work, you see.
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Gratitude - the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted.
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Oh, seek, my love, your newer way I'll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!
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I give her sadness and the gift of pain, a new moon madness and a love of rain.
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