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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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This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
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[From a window in the Writer's Building at MGM, which overlooked a cemetery:] Hello down there. It might interest you to know that up here we are just as dead as you are.
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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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Friends come and go but I wouldn't have thought you'd be one of them
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[Hospitalized and pressing the nurse's button before dictating letters to her secretary:] This should assure us of at least forty-five minutes of undisturbed privacy.
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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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If wild my breast and sore my pride, I bask in dreams of suicide, If cool my heart and high my head I think 'How lucky are the dead.
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The Monte Carlo casino refused to admit me until I was properly dressed so I went and found my stockings, and then came back and lost my shirt.
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The House Beautiful is the play lousy.
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Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey The horse doth with the horseman away.
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When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken.
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I wish, I wish I were a poisonous bacterium.
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