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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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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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I don't want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.
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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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My first love was Cinderella, but she ran off with another man.
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[On Katharine Hepburn's stage performance:] She ran the whole gamut of emotions, from A to B.
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When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken.
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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
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They say of me, and so they should, It's doubtful if I come to good. I see acquaintances and friends Accumulating dividends And making enviable names In science, art and parlor games. But I, despite expert advice, Keep doing things I think are nice, And though to good I never come Inseparable my nose and thumb.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.
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