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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 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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[When asked what was the inspiration for most of her work:] Need of money, dear.
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Q: What's the difference between an enzyme and a hormone? A: You can't hear an enzyme.
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Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
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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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tomorrow's gone-we'll have tonight!
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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