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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
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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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I was the toast of two continents: Greenland and Australia.
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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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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song
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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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There was nothing separate about her days. Like drops on the window-pane, they ran together and trickled away.
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Despite his persecutions, Mr. [Upton] Sinclair reveals himself in Money Writes! to be an enviable man. Always the thing he desires to believe is the thing he feels he knows to be true.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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The Monte Carlo casino refused to admit me until I was properly dressed so I went and found my stockings, and then came back and lost my shirt.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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Tonstant Weader fwowed up.
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A girl's best friend is her mutter.
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Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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Where unwilling dies the rose buds the new another year.
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The House Beautiful is the play lousy.
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What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
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The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.
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People are more than fun than anybody.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.
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