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If you don't have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
Dorothy Parker
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Dorothy Parker
Age: 73 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 22
Died: 1967
Died: June 7
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I was the toast of two continents: Greenland and Australia.
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And where does she find them?
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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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The sun's gone dim, and the moon's gone black. For I loved him, and he didn't love back.
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Newton's Fourth Law: Every action has an equal and opposite satisfaction.
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I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
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Eternity is a ham and two people.
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Be you wise and never sad, You will get your lovely lad. Never serious be, nor true, And your wish will come to you-- And if that makes you happy, kid, You'll be the first it ever did.
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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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[To the British actor who annoyed her by repeated references to his busy 'shedule':] I think you're full of skit.
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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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It costs me never a stab nor squirm / To tread by chance upon a worm. / Aha, my little dear, / I say, Your clan will pay me back one day.
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She was pleased to have him come and never sorry to see him go.
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Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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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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Some men break your heart in two, Some men fawn and flatter, Some men never look at you And that cleans up the matter.
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Hollywood is one place in the world where you can die of encouragement.
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All those writers who write about their own childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me.
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