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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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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
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A list of authors who have made themselves most beloved and therefore, most comfortable financially, shows that it is our national joy to mistake for the first-rate, the fecund rate.
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[Requesting her epitaph to read this way:] Excuse my dust.
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The writer's way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?
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London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it.
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Writing well is the best revenge.
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There was nothing separate about her days. Like drops on the window-pane, they ran together and trickled away.
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[When asked what was the inspiration for most of her work:] Need of money, dear.
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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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[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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Now to me, Edith looks like something that would eat her young.
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Like many a better one before me, I have gone down under the force of numbers, under the books and books and books that keep coming out and coming out and coming out, shoals of them, spates of them, flash floods of them, too blame many books, and no sign of an end.
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