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Dear Mary: We all knew you had it in you.
Dorothy Parker
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Dorothy Parker
Age: 73 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 22
Died: 1967
Died: June 7
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Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.
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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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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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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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Prince or commoner, tenor or bass, Painter or plumber or never-do-well, Do me a favor and shut your face - Poets alone should kiss and tell.
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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, a medley of extemporanea, And love is a thing that can never go wrong, and I am Marie of Romania.
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If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
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[On being told their loquacious, domineering host was 'outspoken':] By whom?
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But I don't give up I forget why not.
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One more drink and I'd have been under the host.
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