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Age before beauty, and pearls before swine.
Dorothy Parker
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Dorothy Parker
Age: 73 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 22
Died: 1967
Died: June 7
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If I had a shiny gun I could have a world of fun Speeding bullets through the brains Of the folks that cause me pains :)
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Writing well is the best revenge.
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I'm never going to accomplish anything that's perfectly clear to me. I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do anything. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.
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There was a reason for the cost of those perfectly plain black dresses.
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Dear Mary: We all knew you had it in you.
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There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
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I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I'm under the table/After four I'm under my host.
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There are times when images blow to fluff, and comparisons stiffen and shrivel.
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There must be courage there must be no awe. There must be criticism, for humor, to my mind, is encapsulated in criticism. There must be a disciplined eye and a wild mind...There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about it.
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What writes worse than a Theodore Dreiser? ... Two Theodore Dreisers.
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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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Of Orson Welles: It's like meeting God without dying.
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Be you wise and never sad, You will get your lovely lad. Never serious be, nor true, And your wish will come to you-- And if that makes you happy, kid, You'll be the first it ever did.
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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, a medley of extemporanea, And love is a thing that can never go wrong, and I am Marie of Romania.
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Flowers are heaven's masterpiece.
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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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[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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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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If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
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all men are the same age.
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