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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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Monmouth County
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Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.
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[Requesting her epitaph to read this way:] Excuse my dust.
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Hollywood is the one place on earth where you could die of encouragement.
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But I don't give up I forget why not.
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Art is a form of catharsis emotional release, purging, cleansing, purifying.
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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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On being told of the death of former President Calvin Coolidge: How could they tell?
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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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ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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We were all imitative. We all wandered in after Miss Edna St. Vincent Millay. We were all being dashing and gallant, declaring we weren't virgins, whether we were or not.
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People are more than fun than anybody.
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On lady novelists: As artists they're rot, but as providers they're oil wells they gush. Norris said she never wrote a story unless it was fun to do. I understand Ferber whistles at her typewriter.
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Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!
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