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It's easier to write about those you hate — just as it's easier to criticize a bad play or a bad book.
Dorothy Parker
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Dorothy Parker
Age: 73 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 22
Died: 1967
Died: June 7
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Oh, seek, my love, your newer way I'll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!
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Her big heart did not, as is so sadly often the case, inhabit a big bosom.
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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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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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Money is only congealed snow.
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The ones I like are ‘cheque’ and ‘enclosed.’
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Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
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Some men break your heart in two, Some men fawn and flatter, Some men never look at you And that cleans up the matter.
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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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I don't want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.
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[On hearing that President Coolidge was dead:] How can you tell?
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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When you have to apologize, it is well, I suppose, to get the thing over quickly.
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Daily dawns another day I must up, to make my way. Though I dress and drink and eat, Move my fingers and my feet, Learn a little, here and there, Weep and laugh and sweat and swear, Hear a song, or watch a stage, Leave some words upon a page, Claim a foe, or hail a friend- Bed awaits me at the end.
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The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.
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It costs me never a stab nor squirm / To tread by chance upon a worm. / Aha, my little dear, / I say, Your clan will pay me back one day.
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My first love was Cinderella, but she ran off with another man.
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I give her sadness and the gift of pain, a new moon madness and a love of rain.
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What writes worse than a Theodore Dreiser? ... Two Theodore Dreisers.
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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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