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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
Dorothy Parker
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Dorothy Parker
Age: 73 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 22
Died: 1967
Died: June 7
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Said of her husband on the day their divorce became final: Oh, don't worry about Alan. . . . Alan will always land on somebody's feet.
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Then she told herself to stop her nonsense. If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them, more easily each time, so easily, soon, that you did not even realize you had gone out searching. Women alone often developed into experts at the practice. She must never join their dismal league.
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Now, look, baby, 'Union' is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be. And I know that ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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I don't want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.
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It costs me never a stab nor squirm / To tread by chance upon a worm. / Aha, my little dear, / I say, Your clan will pay me back one day.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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Eternity is a ham and two people.
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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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Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
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Dear Mary: We all knew you had it in you.
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[Requesting her epitaph to read this way:] Excuse my dust.
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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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Innocence is a desirable thing, a dainty thing, an appealing thing, in its place but carried too far, it is merely ridiculous.
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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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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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If you don't have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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[On hearing that President Coolidge was dead:] How can you tell?
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Writing well is the best revenge.
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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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