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When you have to apologize, it is well, I suppose, to get the thing over quickly.
Dorothy Parker
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Dorothy Parker
Age: 73 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 22
Died: 1967
Died: June 7
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This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.
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I shudder at the thought of men.... I'm due to fall in love again
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She will never win him, whose words had shown she feared to lose.
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Her big heart did not, as is so sadly often the case, inhabit a big bosom.
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[On Kay Strozzi in The Silent Witness:] Miss Strozzi ... had the temerity to wear as truly horrible a gown as ever I have seen on the American stage. ... Had she not luckily been strangled by a member of the cast while disporting this garment, I should have fought my way to the stage and done her in, myself.
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