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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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If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
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There must be courage there must be no awe. There must be criticism, for humor, to my mind, is encapsulated in criticism. There must be a disciplined eye and a wild mind...There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about it.
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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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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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The ones I like are ‘cheque’ and ‘enclosed.’
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I'm not a writer with a drinking problem, I'm a drinker with a writing problem.
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Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
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...as for helping me in the outside world, the Convent taught me only that if you spit on a pencil eraser, it will erase ink.
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People are more fun than anyone.
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Daily dawns another day I must up, to make my way. Though I dress and drink and eat, Move my fingers and my feet, Learn a little, here and there, Weep and laugh and sweat and swear, Hear a song, or watch a stage, Leave some words upon a page, Claim a foe, or hail a friend- Bed awaits me at the end.
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[On an actor who'd broken her leg in London:] Oh, how terrible. She must have done it sliding down a barrister.
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I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be. And I know that ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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tomorrow's gone-we'll have tonight!
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On being told of the death of former President Calvin Coolidge: How could they tell?
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Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!
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It's not the tragedies that kill us it's the messes.
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Of Orson Welles: It's like meeting God without dying.
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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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Mrs. Ewing was a short woman who accepted the obligation borne by so many short women to make up in vivacity what they lack in number of inches from the ground.
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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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