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I find her anecdotes more efficacious than sheep-counting, rain on a tin roof, or alanol tablets.... you will find me and Morpheus, off in a corner, necking.

Dorothy Parker

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Dorothy Parker
Age: 73 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 22
Died: 1967
Died: June 7
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ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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If I should labor through daylight and dark, Consecrate, valorous, serious, true, Then on the world I may blazon my mark And what if I don't, and what if I do?
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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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[When asked what was the inspiration for most of her work:] Need of money, dear.
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If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they're happy.
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[At the reception following her remarriage to Alan Campbell:] People who haven't talked to each other in years are on speaking terms again today - including the bride and groom.
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Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
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Woman wants monogamy Man delights in novelty. Love is woman's moon and sun Man has other forms of fun. Woman lives but in her lord Count to ten, and man is bored. With this the gist and sum of it, What earthly good can come of it?
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Her big heart did not, as is so sadly often the case, inhabit a big bosom.
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If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
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If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
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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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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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[From a window in the Writer's Building at MGM, which overlooked a cemetery:] Hello down there. It might interest you to know that up here we are just as dead as you are.
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Q: What's the difference between an enzyme and a hormone? A: You can't hear an enzyme.
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