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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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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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There are times when images blow to fluff, and comparisons stiffen and shrivel.
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I like to have a martini/Two at the very most.
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All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don't catch horses going around looking like people, do you?
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Where's the man could ease a heart Like a satin gown?
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[On Kay Strozzi in The Silent Witness:] Miss Strozzi ... had the temerity to wear as truly horrible a gown as ever I have seen on the American stage. ... Had she not luckily been strangled by a member of the cast while disporting this garment, I should have fought my way to the stage and done her in, myself.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.
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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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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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It's not the tragedies that kill us it's the messes.
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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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Money is only congealed snow.
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[When asked what was the inspiration for most of her work:] Need of money, dear.
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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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What writes worse than a Theodore Dreiser? ... Two Theodore Dreisers.
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Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
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I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.
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Some men break your heart in two, Some men fawn and flatter, Some men never look at you And that cleans up the matter.
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(Scottish Terriers) have all the compactness of a small dog and all the valor of a big one. And they are so exceedingly sturdy that it is proverbial that the only thing fatal to them is being run over by an automobile - in which case the car itself knows it has been in a fight.
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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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