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Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.
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
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Dorothy Rothschild
Dot Rothschild
Dottie Rothschild
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There was always something immensely comic to her in the thought of living elsewhere than New York. She could not regard as serious proposals that she share a western residence.
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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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Said of her husband on the day their divorce became final: Oh, don't worry about Alan. . . . Alan will always land on somebody's feet.
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London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful.
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She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.
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I'm not a writer with a drinking problem, I'm a drinker with a writing problem.
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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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Hell's afloat in lover's tears.
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[At the reception following her remarriage to Alan Campbell:] People who haven't talked to each other in years are on speaking terms again today - including the bride and groom.
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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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If you don't have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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[On Lou Tellegen's Women Have Been Kind:] The book ... has all the elegance of a quirked little finger and all the glitter of a pair of new rubbers.
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And I'll stay off Verlaine too he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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I like to think of my shining tombstone. It gives me, as you might say, something to live for.
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The nowadays ruling that no word is unprintable has, I think, done nothing whatever for beautiful letters. ... Obscenity is too valuable a commodity to chuck around all over the place it should be taken out of the safe on special occasions only.
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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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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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This play John Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln holds the season's record, thus far, with a run of four evening performances and one matinee. By an odd coincidence, it ran just five performances too many.
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