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It's not the tragedies that kill us it's the messes.
Dorothy Parker
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Dorothy Parker
Age: 73 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 22
Died: 1967
Died: June 7
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Dorothy Rothschild
Dot Rothschild
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She was pleased to have him come and never sorry to see him go.
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I find her anecdotes more efficacious than sheep-counting, rain on a tin roof, or alanol tablets.... you will find me and Morpheus, off in a corner, necking.
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London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful.
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