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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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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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Innocence is a desirable thing, a dainty thing, an appealing thing, in its place but carried too far, it is merely ridiculous.
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You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.
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The Monte Carlo casino refused to admit me until I was properly dressed so I went and found my stockings, and then came back and lost my shirt.
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I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.
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Mrs. Ewing was a short woman who accepted the obligation borne by so many short women to make up in vivacity what they lack in number of inches from the ground.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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Hell's afloat in lover's tears.
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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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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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His books are exciting and powerful and — if I may filch the word from the booksy ones — pulsing.
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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I wanted to be cute. That's the terrible thing. I should have had more sense.
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What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
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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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Newton's Fourth Law: Every action has an equal and opposite satisfaction.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.
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This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
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