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Flowers are heaven's masterpiece.

Dorothy Parker

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Dorothy Parker
Age: 73 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 22
Died: 1967
Died: June 7
Columnist
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West End
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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn.
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There are times when images blow to fluff, and comparisons stiffen and shrivel.
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Upton Sinclair is his own King Charles' head. He cannot keep himself out of his writings, try though he may or, by this time, try though he doesn't.
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It costs me never a stab nor squirm / To tread by chance upon a worm. / Aha, my little dear, / I say, Your clan will pay me back one day.
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Art is a form of catharsis emotional release, purging, cleansing, purifying.
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If I should labor through daylight and dark, Consecrate, valorous, serious, true, Then on the world I may blazon my mark And what if I don't, and what if I do?
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Woman wants monogamy Man delights in novelty. Love is woman's moon and sun Man has other forms of fun. Woman lives but in her lord Count to ten, and man is bored. With this the gist and sum of it, What earthly good can come of it?
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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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[Epitaph:] Involved in a plot.
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Her big heart did not, as is so sadly often the case, inhabit a big bosom.
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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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