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Art is a form of catharsis emotional release, purging, cleansing, purifying.
Dorothy Parker
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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
Dorothy Rothschild
Dot Rothschild
Dottie Rothschild
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If you don't have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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Newton's Fourth Law: Every action has an equal and opposite satisfaction.
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Once, when I was young and true. Someone left me sad - Broke my brittle heart in two And that is very bad. Love is for unlucky folk, Love is but a curse. Once there was a heart I broke And that, I think, is worse.
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Money is only congealed snow.
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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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Age before beauty, and pearls before swine.
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One more drink and I'd have been under the host.
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Now to me, Edith looks like something that would eat her young.
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