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Gratitude - the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world.
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'm never going to accomplish anything that's perfectly clear to me. I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do anything. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.
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Oh, seek, my love, your newer way I'll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!
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[From a window in the Writer's Building at MGM, which overlooked a cemetery:] Hello down there. It might interest you to know that up here we are just as dead as you are.
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All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted.
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All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don't catch horses going around looking like people, do you?
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It's not the tragedies that kill us it's the messes.
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People are more than fun than anybody.
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(Scottish Terriers) have all the compactness of a small dog and all the valor of a big one. And they are so exceedingly sturdy that it is proverbial that the only thing fatal to them is being run over by an automobile - in which case the car itself knows it has been in a fight.
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Flowers are heaven's masterpiece.
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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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... if this world were anything near what it should be there would be no more need of a Book Week than there would be a of a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
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Now to me, Edith looks like something that would eat her young.
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[On being told their loquacious, domineering host was 'outspoken':] By whom?
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I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
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Her big heart did not, as is so sadly often the case, inhabit a big bosom.
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But I don't give up I forget why not.
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Why is it no one sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get one perfect rose.
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There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
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[On Katharine Hepburn's stage performance:] She ran the whole gamut of emotions, from A to B.
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