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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
Columnist
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What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
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Money is only congealed snow.
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Now to me, Edith looks like something that would eat her young.
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Newton's Fourth Law: Every action has an equal and opposite satisfaction.
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If I should labor through daylight and dark, Consecrate, valorous, serious, true, Then on the world I may blazon my mark And what if I don't, and what if I do?
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Where unwilling dies the rose buds the new another year.
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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
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Then she told herself to stop her nonsense. If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them, more easily each time, so easily, soon, that you did not even realize you had gone out searching. Women alone often developed into experts at the practice. She must never join their dismal league.
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Where's the man could ease a heart Like a satin gown?
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The writer's way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?
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I find her anecdotes more efficacious than sheep-counting, rain on a tin roof, or alanol tablets.... you will find me and Morpheus, off in a corner, necking.
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Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.
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Of Orson Welles: It's like meeting God without dying.
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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[On James Gould Cozzens' By Love Possessed:] It is a vast enterprise encompassing all sorts of love, except, naturally, those branches which extend to Jews, Negroes, and people who have lost track of their great-grandparents.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
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Why, after all, should readers never be harrowed? Surely there is enough happiness in life without having to go to books for it.
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