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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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London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful.
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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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[To the British actor who annoyed her by repeated references to his busy 'shedule':] I think you're full of skit.
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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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[Completely bored by a country weekend, wiring to a friend:] For heaven's sake, rush me a loaf of bread, enclosing saw and file.
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Said of her husband on the day their divorce became final: Oh, don't worry about Alan. . . . Alan will always land on somebody's feet.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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