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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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There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about it.
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it.
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Once, when I was young and true. Someone left me sad - Broke my brittle heart in two And that is very bad. Love is for unlucky folk, Love is but a curse. Once there was a heart I broke And that, I think, is worse.
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Upton Sinclair is his own King Charles' head. He cannot keep himself out of his writings, try though he may or, by this time, try though he doesn't.
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There are times when images blow to fluff, and comparisons stiffen and shrivel.
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Ah, clear they see and true they say That one shall weep, and one shall stray
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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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She will never win him, whose words had shown she feared to lose.
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