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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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West End
Monmouth County
New Jersey
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Just begin a story with such a phrase as 'I remember Disraeli - poor old Dizz! - once saying to me, in answer to my poke in the eye,' and you will find me and Morpheus off in a corner, necking.
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The House Beautiful is the play lousy.
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Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.
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You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.
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Q: What's the difference between an enzyme and a hormone? A: You can't hear an enzyme.
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She was pleased to have him come and never sorry to see him go.
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Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.
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I know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sake of a great work. But this is no great work, you see.
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I misremember who first was cruel enough to nurture the cocktail party into life. But perhaps it would be not too much to say, in fact it would be not enough to say, that it was not worth the trouble.
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...as for helping me in the outside world, the Convent taught me only that if you spit on a pencil eraser, it will erase ink.
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Friends come and go but I wouldn't have thought you'd be one of them
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Gratitude - the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world.
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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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If I should labor through daylight and dark, Consecrate, valorous, serious, true, Then on the world I may blazon my mark And what if I don't, and what if I do?
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My first love was Cinderella, but she ran off with another man.
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Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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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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I'm not a writer with a drinking problem, I'm a drinker with a writing problem.
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