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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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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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tomorrow's gone-we'll have tonight!
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all men are the same age.
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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People are more than fun than anybody.
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Newton's Fourth Law: Every action has an equal and opposite satisfaction.
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I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be. And I know that ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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The nowadays ruling that no word is unprintable has, I think, done nothing whatever for beautiful letters. ... Obscenity is too valuable a commodity to chuck around all over the place it should be taken out of the safe on special occasions only.
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[On an actor who'd broken her leg in London:] Oh, how terrible. She must have done it sliding down a barrister.
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I wish, I wish I were a poisonous bacterium.
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