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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
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Writing well is the best revenge.
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I fell into writing, I suppose, being one of those awful children who wrote verses. I went to a convent in New York-the Blessed Sacrament... I was fired from there, finally, for a lot of things, among them my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was spontaneous combustion.
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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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Where's the man could ease a heart Like a satin gown?
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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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All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted.
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I shudder at the thought of men.... I'm due to fall in love again
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If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the fact that it's the best you can do that kills you.
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Upton Sinclair is his own King Charles' head. He cannot keep himself out of his writings, try though he may or, by this time, try though he doesn't.
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Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
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She was pleased to have him come and never sorry to see him go.
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Nevil Shute's On the Beach is no Christmas carol, but it seems to me a remarkably fine novel, one which I read, in the peculiarly repulsive phrase, with my eyes glued to the page.
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I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I'm under the table/After four I'm under my host.
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Now to me, Edith looks like something that would eat her young.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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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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If you don't have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.
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Why is it no one sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get one perfect rose.
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Scratch a king and find a fool!
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