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Dorothy Parker
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Dorothy Parker
Age: 73 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 22
Died: 1967
Died: June 7
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Money is only congealed snow.
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[At the reception following her remarriage to Alan Campbell:] People who haven't talked to each other in years are on speaking terms again today - including the bride and groom.
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I won't telephone him. I'll never telephone him again as long as I live. He'll rot in hell, before I'll call him up. You don't have to give me strength, God I have it myself. If he wanted me, he could get me. He knows where I am. He knows I'm waiting here. He's so sure of me, so sure. I wonder why they hate you, as soon as they are sure of you.
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You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.
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I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I'm under the table/After four I'm under my host.
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I fell into writing, I suppose, being one of those awful children who wrote verses. I went to a convent in New York-the Blessed Sacrament... I was fired from there, finally, for a lot of things, among them my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was spontaneous combustion.
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Art is a form of catharsis emotional release, purging, cleansing, purifying.
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[On Katharine Hepburn's stage performance:] She ran the whole gamut of emotions, from A to B.
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My land is bare of chattering folk / the clouds are low along the ridges, / and sweet's the air with curly smoke / from all my burning bridges.
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[Requesting her epitaph to read this way:] Excuse my dust.
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There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
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Scratch a king and find a fool!
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Of Orson Welles: It's like meeting God without dying.
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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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Gratitude - the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world.
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Where's the man could ease a heart Like a satin gown?
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Writing well is the best revenge.
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If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
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It's not the tragedies that kill us it's the messes.
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