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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
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[On being told their loquacious, domineering host was 'outspoken':] By whom?
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[From a window in the Writer's Building at MGM, which overlooked a cemetery:] Hello down there. It might interest you to know that up here we are just as dead as you are.
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[When asked what was the inspiration for most of her work:] Need of money, dear.
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