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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?
Dorothy Parker
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Dorothy Parker
Age: 73 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 22
Died: 1967
Died: June 7
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Sometimes I think I'll give up trying, and just go completely Russian and sit on a stove and moan all day.
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She will never win him, whose words had shown she feared to lose.
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn.
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