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Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.
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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If I don't drive around the park, I'm pretty sure to make my mark. If I'm in bed each night by ten, I may get back my looks again. If I abstain from fun and such, I'll probably amount to much But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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Just begin a story with such a phrase as 'I remember Disraeli - poor old Dizz! - once saying to me, in answer to my poke in the eye,' and you will find me and Morpheus off in a corner, necking.
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Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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[On Kay Strozzi in The Silent Witness:] Miss Strozzi ... had the temerity to wear as truly horrible a gown as ever I have seen on the American stage. ... Had she not luckily been strangled by a member of the cast while disporting this garment, I should have fought my way to the stage and done her in, myself.
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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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I like to think of my shining tombstone. It gives me, as you might say, something to live for.
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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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