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Writing well is the best revenge.

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
Screenwriter
Songwriter
Writer
West End
Monmouth County
New Jersey
Dorothy Rothschild
Dot Rothschild
Dottie Rothschild
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How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid I've lost the knack. I might try busting myself smartly over the temple with the night-light. I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound if I can remember any of the damn things.
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Q: What's the difference between an enzyme and a hormone? A: You can't hear an enzyme.
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[Requesting her epitaph to read this way:] Excuse my dust.
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[On hearing that President Coolidge was dead:] How can you tell?
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Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.
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She can sit up and beg, and she can give her paw — I don't say she will, but she can.
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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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People are more than fun than anybody.
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Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.
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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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My first love was Cinderella, but she ran off with another man.
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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 know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sake of a great work. But this is no great work, you see.
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Oh, seek, my love, your newer way I'll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!
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Eternity is a ham and two people.
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Hollywood is the one place on earth where you could die of encouragement.
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Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
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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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It was written without fear and without research.
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