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I don't want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.
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
New Jersey
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There was a reason for the cost of those perfectly plain black dresses.
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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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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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[On Katharine Hepburn's stage performance:] She ran the whole gamut of emotions, from A to B.
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Scratch a king and find a fool!
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Of Orson Welles: It's like meeting God without dying.
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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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Hollywood is the one place on earth where you could die of encouragement.
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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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Guido Natso is natso guido.
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What writes worse than a Theodore Dreiser? ... Two Theodore Dreisers.
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[When asked what was the inspiration for most of her work:] Need of money, dear.
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My land is bare of chattering folk / the clouds are low along the ridges, / and sweet's the air with curly smoke / from all my burning bridges.
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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All those writers who write about their own childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me.
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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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Flowers are heaven's masterpiece.
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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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The sun's gone dim, and the moon's gone black. For I loved him, and he didn't love back.
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