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Dorothy Parker
Age: 73 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 22
Died: 1967
Died: June 7
Columnist
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West End
Monmouth County
New Jersey
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[On being told their loquacious, domineering host was 'outspoken':] By whom?
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But I give you my word, in the entire book there is nothing that cannot be said aloud in mixed company. And there is, also, nothing that makes you a bit the wiser. I wonder--oh, what will you think of me--if those two statements do not verge upon the synonymous.
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Mrs. Ewing was a short woman who accepted the obligation borne by so many short women to make up in vivacity what they lack in number of inches from the ground.
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Money is only congealed snow.
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Age before beauty, and pearls before swine.
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All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don't catch horses going around looking like people, do you?
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When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken.
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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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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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Oh, both my shoes are shiny new, And pristine is my hat My dress is 1922… My life is all like that.
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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When you have to apologize, it is well, I suppose, to get the thing over quickly.
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Just begin a story with such a phrase as 'I remember Disraeli - poor old Dizz! - once saying to me, in answer to my poke in the eye,' and you will find me and Morpheus off in a corner, necking.
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The Swiss are a neat and an industrious people, none of whom is under seventy-five years of age.
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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I wanted to be cute. That's the terrible thing. I should have had more sense.
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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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Why is it no one sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get one perfect rose.
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