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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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London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it.
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Somewhere, there, is an analogy, in a small way, if you have the patience for it. But I guess it isn't a very good anecdote. I'm better at animal stories.
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Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
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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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Perhaps it suddenly brought to us the sense of change. Or irresponsibility. But don't forget that, though the people in the twenties seemed like flops, they weren't. Fitzgerald, the rest of them, reckless as they were, drinkers as they were, they worked damn hard and all the time.
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Tonstant Weader fwowed up.
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Where unwilling dies the rose buds the new another year.
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The nowadays ruling that no word is unprintable has, I think, done nothing whatever for beautiful letters. ... Obscenity is too valuable a commodity to chuck around all over the place it should be taken out of the safe on special occasions only.
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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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A girl's best friend is her mutter.
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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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Guido Natso is natso guido.
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[On James Gould Cozzens' By Love Possessed:] It is a vast enterprise encompassing all sorts of love, except, naturally, those branches which extend to Jews, Negroes, and people who have lost track of their great-grandparents.
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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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Well, there are always those who cannot distinguish between glitter and glamour . . . the glamour of Isadora Duncan came from her great, torn, bewildered, foolhardy soul.
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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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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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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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People are more than fun than anybody.
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I was the toast of two continents: Greenland and Australia.
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