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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
Columnist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Poet
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West End
Monmouth County
New Jersey
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[Completely bored by a country weekend, wiring to a friend:] For heaven's sake, rush me a loaf of bread, enclosing saw and file.
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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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Somewhere, there, is an analogy, in a small way, if you have the patience for it. But I guess it isn't a very good anecdote. I'm better at animal stories.
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Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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It's easier to write about those you hate — just as it's easier to criticize a bad play or a bad book.
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The affair between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature.
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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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Nevil Shute's On the Beach is no Christmas carol, but it seems to me a remarkably fine novel, one which I read, in the peculiarly repulsive phrase, with my eyes glued to the page.
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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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The ones I like are ‘cheque’ and ‘enclosed.’
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They say of me, and so they should, It's doubtful if I come to good. I see acquaintances and friends Accumulating dividends And making enviable names In science, art and parlor games. But I, despite expert advice, Keep doing things I think are nice, And though to good I never come Inseparable my nose and thumb.
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At birth the Devil touched my tongue.
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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Art is a form of catharsis emotional release, purging, cleansing, purifying.
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There was a reason for the cost of those perfectly plain black dresses.
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His books are exciting and powerful and — if I may filch the word from the booksy ones — pulsing.
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All those writers who write about their own childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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