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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song
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
Monmouth County
New Jersey
Dorothy Rothschild
Dot Rothschild
Dottie Rothschild
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I was the toast of two continents: Greenland and Australia.
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My own dear love, he is strong and bold And he cares not what comes after. His words ring sweet as a chime of gold, And his eyes are lit with laughter. He is jubilant as a flag unfurled - Oh, a girl, she'd not forget him. My own dear love, he is all my world - And I wish I'd never met him.
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Art is a form of catharsis emotional release, purging, cleansing, purifying.
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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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The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
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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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The Swiss are a neat and an industrious people, none of whom is under seventy-five years of age.
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If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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She was pleased to have him come and never sorry to see him go.
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ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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My first love was Cinderella, but she ran off with another man.
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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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Hell's afloat in lover's tears.
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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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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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Now to me, Edith looks like something that would eat her young.
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[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that's much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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On lady novelists: As artists they're rot, but as providers they're oil wells they gush. Norris said she never wrote a story unless it was fun to do. I understand Ferber whistles at her typewriter.
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[Epitaph:] Involved in a plot.
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