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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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Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey The horse doth with the horseman away.
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There was a reason for the cost of those perfectly plain black dresses.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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Hollywood is one place in the world where you can die of encouragement.
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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[Hospitalized and pressing the nurse's button before dictating letters to her secretary:] This should assure us of at least forty-five minutes of undisturbed privacy.
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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song
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The writer's way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?
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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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All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don't catch horses going around looking like people, do you?
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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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There was nothing separate about her days. Like drops on the window-pane, they ran together and trickled away.
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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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ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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I wish, I wish I were a poisonous bacterium.
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Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn.
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If wild my breast and sore my pride, I bask in dreams of suicide, If cool my heart and high my head I think 'How lucky are the dead.
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Gratitude - the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world.
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My first love was Cinderella, but she ran off with another man.
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