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I wish, I wish I were a poisonous bacterium.
Dorothy Parker
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Dorothy Parker
Age: 73 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 22
Died: 1967
Died: June 7
Columnist
Journalist
Literary Critic
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West End
Monmouth County
New Jersey
Dorothy Rothschild
Dot Rothschild
Dottie Rothschild
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Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.
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[When asked what was the inspiration for most of her work:] Need of money, dear.
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There must be courage there must be no awe. There must be criticism, for humor, to my mind, is encapsulated in criticism. There must be a disciplined eye and a wild mind...There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about it.
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I'm not a writer with a drinking problem, I'm a drinker with a writing problem.
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London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful.
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A girl's best friend is her mutter.
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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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[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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I don't want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.
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She can sit up and beg, and she can give her paw — I don't say she will, but she can.
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Daily dawns another day I must up, to make my way. Though I dress and drink and eat, Move my fingers and my feet, Learn a little, here and there, Weep and laugh and sweat and swear, Hear a song, or watch a stage, Leave some words upon a page, Claim a foe, or hail a friend- Bed awaits me at the end.
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There are times when images blow to fluff, and comparisons stiffen and shrivel.
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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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Writing well is the best revenge.
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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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She was pleased to have him come and never sorry to see him go.
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Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
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The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.
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What writes worse than a Theodore Dreiser? ... Two Theodore Dreisers.
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