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Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn.
Dorothy Parker
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Dorothy Parker
Age: 73 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 22
Died: 1967
Died: June 7
Columnist
Journalist
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West End
Monmouth County
New Jersey
Dorothy Rothschild
Dot Rothschild
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Oh, both my shoes are shiny new, And pristine is my hat My dress is 1922… My life is all like that.
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I like to think of my shining tombstone. It gives me, as you might say, something to live for.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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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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Money is only congealed snow.
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