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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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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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It's not the tragedies that kill us it's the messes.
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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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People are more than fun than anybody.
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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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Gratitude - the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world.
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I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
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When I was young and bold and strong, The right was right, the wrong was wrong. With plume on high and flag unfurled, I rode away to right the world. But now I’m old - and good and bad, Are woven in a crazy plaid. I sit and say the world is so, And wise is s/he who lets it go.
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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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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, a medley of extemporanea, And love is a thing that can never go wrong, and I am Marie of Romania.
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I know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sake of a great work. But this is no great work, you see.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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Sometimes I think I'll give up trying, and just go completely Russian and sit on a stove and moan all day.
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Well, there are always those who cannot distinguish between glitter and glamour . . . the glamour of Isadora Duncan came from her great, torn, bewildered, foolhardy soul.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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There was nothing separate about her days. Like drops on the window-pane, they ran together and trickled away.
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