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I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
Dorothy Parker
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Dorothy Parker
Age: 73 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 22
Died: 1967
Died: June 7
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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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Money is only congealed snow.
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When I was young and bold and strong, The right was right, the wrong was wrong. With plume on high and flag unfurled, I rode away to right the world. But now I’m old - and good and bad, Are woven in a crazy plaid. I sit and say the world is so, And wise is s/he who lets it go.
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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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[When asked what was the inspiration for most of her work:] Need of money, dear.
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[On Lou Tellegen's Women Have Been Kind:] The book ... has all the elegance of a quirked little finger and all the glitter of a pair of new rubbers.
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All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted.
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She can sit up and beg, and she can give her paw — I don't say she will, but she can.
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Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.
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[Hospitalized and pressing the nurse's button before dictating letters to her secretary:] This should assure us of at least forty-five minutes of undisturbed privacy.
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Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn.
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The ones I like are ‘cheque’ and ‘enclosed.’
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Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.
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On being told of the death of former President Calvin Coolidge: How could they tell?
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London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful.
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I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
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Oh, seek, my love, your newer way I'll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!
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