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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
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Literary Critic
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Screenwriter
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West End
Monmouth County
New Jersey
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[Requesting her epitaph to read this way:] Excuse my dust.
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I was the toast of two continents: Greenland and Australia.
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Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.
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Mrs. Ewing was a short woman who accepted the obligation borne by so many short women to make up in vivacity what they lack in number of inches from the ground.
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