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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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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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