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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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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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The ones I like are ‘cheque’ and ‘enclosed.’
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This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
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Dear Mary: We all knew you had it in you.
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On lady novelists: As artists they're rot, but as providers they're oil wells they gush. Norris said she never wrote a story unless it was fun to do. I understand Ferber whistles at her typewriter.
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Age before beauty, and pearls before swine.
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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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... 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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I shudder at the thought of men.... I'm due to fall in love again
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The writer's way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?
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There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.
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Where's the man could ease a heart Like a satin gown?
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Gratitude - the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world.
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If I had a shiny gun I could have a world of fun Speeding bullets through the brains Of the folks that cause me pains :)
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Where unwilling dies the rose buds the new another year.
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At birth the Devil touched my tongue.
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