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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
Columnist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Poet
Screenwriter
Songwriter
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West End
Monmouth County
New Jersey
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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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Money is only congealed snow.
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Scratch a king and find a fool!
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And where does she find them?
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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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Writing well is the best revenge.
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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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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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Now to me, Edith looks like something that would eat her young.
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Then she told herself to stop her nonsense. If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them, more easily each time, so easily, soon, that you did not even realize you had gone out searching. Women alone often developed into experts at the practice. She must never join their dismal league.
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I wish, I wish I were a poisonous bacterium.
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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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[Requesting her epitaph to read this way:] Excuse my dust.
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It was written without fear and without research.
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Why, after all, should readers never be harrowed? Surely there is enough happiness in life without having to go to books for it.
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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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Prince or commoner, tenor or bass, Painter or plumber or never-do-well, Do me a favor and shut your face - Poets alone should kiss and tell.
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All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted.
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