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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.
Dorothy Parker
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Dorothy Parker
Age: 73 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 22
Died: 1967
Died: June 7
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Like many a better one before me, I have gone down under the force of numbers, under the books and books and books that keep coming out and coming out and coming out, shoals of them, spates of them, flash floods of them, too blame many books, and no sign of an end.
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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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My land is bare of chattering folk / the clouds are low along the ridges, / and sweet's the air with curly smoke / from all my burning bridges.
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And I'll stay off Verlaine too he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Flowers are heaven's masterpiece.
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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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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
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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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Now to me, Edith looks like something that would eat her young.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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Perhaps it suddenly brought to us the sense of change. Or irresponsibility. But don't forget that, though the people in the twenties seemed like flops, they weren't. Fitzgerald, the rest of them, reckless as they were, drinkers as they were, they worked damn hard and all the time.
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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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One more drink and I'd have been under the host.
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Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
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Oh, seek, my love, your newer way I'll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!
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My first love was Cinderella, but she ran off with another man.
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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
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When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken.
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