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I give her sadness and the gift of pain, a new moon madness and a love of rain.
Dorothy Parker
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Dorothy Parker
Age: 73 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 22
Died: 1967
Died: June 7
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I like to think of my shining tombstone. It gives me, as you might say, something to live for.
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Money is only congealed snow.
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Hollywood is one place in the world where you can die of encouragement.
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Her big heart did not, as is so sadly often the case, inhabit a big bosom.
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I regret to say that during the first act of this, I fell so soundly asleep that the gentleman who brought me piled up a barricade of overcoat, hat, stick, and gloves between us to establish a separation in the eyes of the world, and went into an impersonation of A Young Man Who Has Come to the Theater Unaccompanied.
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Art is a form of catharsis emotional release, purging, cleansing, purifying.
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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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