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It is that word 'hunny,' my darlings, that marks the first place in The House at Pooh Corner at which Tonstant Weader fwowed up.
Dorothy Parker
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Dorothy Parker
Age: 73 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 22
Died: 1967
Died: June 7
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Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.
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[When asked what was the inspiration for most of her work:] Need of money, dear.
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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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Where unwilling dies the rose buds the new another year.
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Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
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There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
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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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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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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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Somewhere, there, is an analogy, in a small way, if you have the patience for it. But I guess it isn't a very good anecdote. I'm better at animal stories.
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Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.
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She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.
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Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.
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