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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
Dorothy Parker
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Dorothy Parker
Age: 73 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 22
Died: 1967
Died: June 7
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[Requesting her epitaph to read this way:] Excuse my dust.
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Like many a better one before me, I have gone down under the force of numbers, under the books and books and books that keep coming out and coming out and coming out, shoals of them, spates of them, flash floods of them, too blame many books, and no sign of an end.
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[On hearing that President Coolidge was dead:] How can you tell?
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Writing well is the best revenge.
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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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The Swiss are a neat and an industrious people, none of whom is under seventy-five years of age.
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She will never win him, whose words had shown she feared to lose.
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Woman wants monogamy Man delights in novelty. Love is woman's moon and sun Man has other forms of fun. Woman lives but in her lord Count to ten, and man is bored. With this the gist and sum of it, What earthly good can come of it?
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[Epitaph:] Involved in a plot.
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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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