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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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Monmouth County
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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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[Epitaph:] Involved in a plot.
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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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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'm never going to accomplish anything that's perfectly clear to me. I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do anything. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.
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There must be courage there must be no awe. There must be criticism, for humor, to my mind, is encapsulated in criticism. There must be a disciplined eye and a wild mind...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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If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
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[Requesting her epitaph to read this way:] Excuse my dust.
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We were all imitative. We all wandered in after Miss Edna St. Vincent Millay. We were all being dashing and gallant, declaring we weren't virgins, whether we were or not.
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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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Scratch a king and find a fool!
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.
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Why, after all, should readers never be harrowed? Surely there is enough happiness in life without having to go to books for it.
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When you have to apologize, it is well, I suppose, to get the thing over quickly.
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At birth the Devil touched my tongue.
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I wanted to be cute. That's the terrible thing. I should have had more sense.
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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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Nevil Shute's On the Beach is no Christmas carol, but it seems to me a remarkably fine novel, one which I read, in the peculiarly repulsive phrase, with my eyes glued to the page.
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London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful.
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