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Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with 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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West End
Monmouth County
New Jersey
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They say of me, and so they should, It's doubtful if I come to good. I see acquaintances and friends Accumulating dividends And making enviable names In science, art and parlor games. But I, despite expert advice, Keep doing things I think are nice, And though to good I never come Inseparable my nose and thumb.
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Hell's afloat in lover's tears.
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Of Orson Welles: It's like meeting God without dying.
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Like many a better one before me, I have gone down under the force of numbers, under the books and books and books that keep coming out and coming out and coming out, shoals of them, spates of them, flash floods of them, too blame many books, and no sign of an end.
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If wild my breast and sore my pride, I bask in dreams of suicide, If cool my heart and high my head I think 'How lucky are the dead.
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Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
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[On being told their loquacious, domineering host was 'outspoken':] By whom?
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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The affair between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature.
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It was written without fear and without research.
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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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[Hospitalized and pressing the nurse's button before dictating letters to her secretary:] This should assure us of at least forty-five minutes of undisturbed privacy.
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Q: What's the difference between an enzyme and a hormone? A: You can't hear an enzyme.
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Hollywood is the one place on earth where you could die of encouragement.
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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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I was the toast of two continents: Greenland and Australia.
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Now to me, Edith looks like something that would eat her young.
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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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When I was young and bold and strong, The right was right, the wrong was wrong. With plume on high and flag unfurled, I rode away to right the world. But now I’m old - and good and bad, Are woven in a crazy plaid. I sit and say the world is so, And wise is s/he who lets it go.
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