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Women and elephants never forget.
Dorothy Parker
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Dorothy Parker
Age: 73 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 22
Died: 1967
Died: June 7
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Accursed from their birth they be Who seek to find monogamy, Pursuing it from bed to bed— I think they would be better dead.
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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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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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You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.
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... if this world were anything near what it should be there would be no more need of a Book Week than there would be a of a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
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If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit We all assume that Oscar said it.
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Hell's afloat in lover's tears.
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[On hearing that President Coolidge was dead:] How can you tell?
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Gratitude - the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world.
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Yes, well, let me tell you that if nobody had ever learned to quote, very few people would be in love with La Rochefoucauld. I bet you I don't know ten souls who read him without a middleman.
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The ones I like are ‘cheque’ and ‘enclosed.’
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Writing well is the best revenge.
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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song
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...as for helping me in the outside world, the Convent taught me only that if you spit on a pencil eraser, it will erase ink.
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She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.
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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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A list of authors who have made themselves most beloved and therefore, most comfortable financially, shows that it is our national joy to mistake for the first-rate, the fecund rate.
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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