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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
Columnist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Poet
Screenwriter
Songwriter
Writer
West End
Monmouth County
New Jersey
Dorothy Rothschild
Dot Rothschild
Dottie Rothschild
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My own dear love, he is strong and bold And he cares not what comes after. His words ring sweet as a chime of gold, And his eyes are lit with laughter. He is jubilant as a flag unfurled - Oh, a girl, she'd not forget him. My own dear love, he is all my world - And I wish I'd never met him.
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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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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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Her big heart did not, as is so sadly often the case, inhabit a big bosom.
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ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken.
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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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Now to me, Edith looks like something that would eat her young.
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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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But I don't give up I forget why not.
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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
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All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don't catch horses going around looking like people, do you?
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I was the toast of two continents: Greenland and Australia.
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[Epitaph:] Involved in a plot.
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I'm not a writer with a drinking problem, I'm a drinker with a writing problem.
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She was pleased to have him come and never sorry to see him go.
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Some men break your heart in two, Some men fawn and flatter, Some men never look at you And that cleans up the matter.
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When you have to apologize, it is well, I suppose, to get the thing over quickly.
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I wish, I wish I were a poisonous bacterium.
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