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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
Dorothy Parker
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Dorothy Parker
Age: 73 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 22
Died: 1967
Died: June 7
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
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Q: What's the difference between an enzyme and a hormone? A: You can't hear an enzyme.
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[Requesting her epitaph to read this way:] Excuse my dust.
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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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Once, when I was young and true. Someone left me sad - Broke my brittle heart in two And that is very bad. Love is for unlucky folk, Love is but a curse. Once there was a heart I broke And that, I think, is worse.
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I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
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I know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sake of a great work. But this is no great work, you see.
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Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.
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